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«How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
paramount, surrounded, The Paramount
«Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Children,
Mankind
| Keywords:
exception, humans, on purpose
«Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.»
Author: Cameron Diaz
(Actress)
| About:
Children,
Fashion,
Growth
| Keywords:
comb, combs, feathered, hair style
«He who teaches children learns more than they do»
«Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.»
«He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant»
«He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.»
«Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Children,
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
cleverest, deceive, disguised, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, ingeniously, penetrating, recognizes, revolted, revolts, wide-awake, wide
«He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth»
«How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Eyes,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
assertions, enforce
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