Children Quotes — page 42

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people, — our retrospection will be all to the future.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! — An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young — A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Now such an one for daughter Creon had As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went …

The Great Elector is the one among my ancestors whom I have regarded with the most enthusiastic admiration, and from my youth up have set before my eyes as my model.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

O memory, where is now my youth, Who used to say that life was truth?

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.

God took a child to fondle him in His bosom of delight; but the mother wept and would not be consoled because her child no longer existed.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May. Which creature afore desired three gifts of God. The First was mind of His Passion; the Second was bodily sickness in …

Children are all foreigners.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

270. A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.

An appeal to his alarm is never a good plan to rid oneself of a spirited young man.

one great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports, and trifle away all their time insipidly, is, because they have found their curiosity baulk'd, and their inquiries neglected.

Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.

No man encouraged his characters so much as Dickens. "I am an affectionate father," he says, "to every child of my fancy." He was not only an affectionate father, he was an overindulgent father. The children of his fancy are spoilt …