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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.
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
knowing knowing-who-you-are mind
Knowing who you are begins in the mind. Bebe Moore Campbell
knowing matter triumph
I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what. Audre Lorde
knowing not-knowing pagan
I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent Arthur Rimbaud
knowing rely-on-yourself factors
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself. Denis Waitley
knowing born
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing. Harper Lee
knowing loudest
The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. Mark Twain
knowing name stadium walk
When you walk into this stadium you won't be able to walk out of it without knowing what the name of the stadium is going to be. Tom Zupancic
knowing knows playing
I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up. Marisa Miller
adults young young-adult
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. Elizabeth Olsen
adults sometimes feels
Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult Art Spiegelman
adults may facts
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. David Foster Wallace
adults quiet bunch
...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet. Tina Fey
adults defense characteristics
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion. Sigmund Freud
adults fans huge
I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. Serj Tankian
adults coraline mets
Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense. Neil Gaiman
adults roles stories
There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing. Max Irons
adults intimidated
I'm generally intimidated by adults. Mayim Bialik