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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.
home stronger spokes
Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.
home heaven tonight
What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven. Charles Spurgeon
home sleep past
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be. Alan Paton
home reality profound
LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me. Alan Moore
home years time-away
If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home. Alan Jackson
home house immigration
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy. Alan Greenspan
home exhausted
You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted! Alan Cooper
home winning sight
You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you. Alan Brien
home vampire want
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. Alan Ball
fame hall high percent picks
When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage. Gil Brandt
fame handle being-famous
I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me. Bob Marley
fame convenient being-famous
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. Catherine Deneuve
fame halls hall-of-fame
You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp. Casey Stengel
fame far hall numbers
With those numbers that he has, those plateaus, that's Hall of Fame right there. As far as I'm concerned, he's in on the first ballot. Ryne Sandberg
fame feels
I feel like fame is wasted on me. Ben Affleck
fame doing-right
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong? Barbra Streisand
fame
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek. Aidan Quinn
fame conquest conqueror
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. William Shakespeare