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children conducting herds
Charles Dickens and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
children kissing may
Charles Dickens Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
children wife desire
Charles Dickens If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
children pride men
Charles Dickens There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.
children father heart
Charles Dickens Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
Charles Dickens There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
Charles Dickens In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
Charles Dickens It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
memorable thoughtful men
Charles Spurgeon But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
memorable assets irrational
Alan Greenspan How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
memorable vacation vacation-time
David Brenner It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.
memorable men eulogy
William Shakespeare His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
memorable autumn march
William Shakespeare Beware the ides of March.
memorable trying deeds
William Shakespeare The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
memorable thinking world
William Shakespeare He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
memorable player government
Kurt Vonnegut Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
memorable men laughing
Kurt Vonnegut It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
ease ability ill
Earl Wilson Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
ease heart man satin
Dorothy Rothschild Parker Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?
ease focus help instead kids past telling
Craig Albright We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.
ease language thirst
Bernard Malamud You can't eat language but it eases thirst.
ease pockets inns
William Shakespeare Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?
ease please poor-richard
Benjamin Franklin Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
ease matter resistance
Benjamin Franklin The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
ease lasts tacky
Bette Midler I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
ease feeling loved sure victims
Lonnie Earl Johnson We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.