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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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 Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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." Charles Dickens
children boys two
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. Charles Dickens
shoes contentment world
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Charles Caleb Colton
shoes earth pairs
It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather. Chogyam Trungpa
shoes talking legs
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
shoes brown
Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes. Bill Nighy
shoes numbers choices
The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes. Bertrand Russell
shoes pockets rolling
That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes. Alan Tudyk
shoes boots coats
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. Charlie Chaplin
shoes would-be gender
Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed. Cheryl Strayed
shoes orthopedics feels
I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected. Bill Maher
feet sin crosses
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross. Charles Spurgeon
feet clothes shoes
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot. Alan Bennett
feet people challenges
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary. Ed Begley, Jr.
feet chinese advertising-business
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. Dean Acheson
feet bird tree
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. Audre Lorde
feet foe
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. William Shakespeare
feet size swimmer
I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet. Cat Deeley
feet
Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow. C. S. Lewis
feet lost trying
We were trying to get on our feet before we lost it. Don Walchuk