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children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend. Charles Caleb Colton
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them Charles Dickens
children taken ideas
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
children boys two
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
careers way enough
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way. Ed Asner
careers keys library
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate. David Horowitz
careers way comedy
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy. Ben Stiller
careers trying realised
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. Benedict Cumberbatch
careers goal long
I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
careers soldier tvs
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber. Bear Grylls
careers expectations inspired
I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations. Audrey Tautou
careers acting mystery
The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me. Antony Sher
careers guy want
As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly. Denny Hamlin
parent religion indifferent
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.
parent pious
My parents are deeply pious Hindus. Akhil Sharma
parent one-day fool
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves. Edward Hoagland
parent touchy my-own
My own parents were touchy-feely.
parent comedian actors
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
parent baptism slave
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Arthur Rimbaud
parent dare critics
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Arna Bontemps
parent knows hard
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know. Dee Snider
parent literature cradle
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. Kurt Vonnegut