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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.
school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact. Alan Alda
school law alaska
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. Al Stewart
school past records
I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion. Akio Morita
school thinking guy
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. Chris Cleave
school kind sweeney-todd
I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that. Chris Colfer
mps numbers vote
I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament. David Steel
mps way sovereignty
Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay. Tony Blair
mps people vote
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP Vince Cable
mps support partners
Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner. Michel Martelly
mps land two
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. Jeffrey Archer
mps village india
If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "Sānsad Adharsh Grām Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies. Narendra Modi
mps empowerment village
The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.
mps numbers trends
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. Lucy Powell
mps london lawyer
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London. Cynthia Payne