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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.
play done form
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts
play forget notes
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play who-i-am people
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
play interesting people
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
play pursuit said
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. Alan Bennett
play scripts film
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
play people mouths
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
play theatre audience
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. Alan Ayckbourn
play propaganda
I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. Alan Alda
corn today collaboration
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. David Hume
corner left people strongest
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house. Estelle
corner looking losing turn year
We are looking to turn the corner this year and come out of a losing slump. Talen Singer
corner customers
There are customers from every corner of the globe.
corn elevator fall farmers load people pull
There are some farmers who pull up to the elevator here in the fall and just tell the people that this load of corn is going to the foundation.
corner direction europe moving positive question toward turned
There is no question that Yugoslavia has turned a corner and is moving in a positive direction toward Europe and democracy.
corners follow four mountain reach sports west
We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before. Craig Thompson
corn toes ankles
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice. Cesar Romero
corner history preserve rugged
What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them. Rick Steves