Children Quotes by George Eliot

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

— George Eliot

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...

— George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

— George Eliot

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

— George Eliot

“She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.”

— George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

— George Eliot

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

— George Eliot

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that…

— George Eliot

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

— George Eliot

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be…

— George Eliot

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the…

— George Eliot

“In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.”

— George Eliot

“Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still…

— George Eliot

“Dear heart, dear heart! But you must have a cup o’ tea first, child,” said Mrs. Poyser, falling at once from the…

— George Eliot

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who…

— George Eliot

“The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth's breakfast-table in the large parlor where the maps and desk were: father,…

— George Eliot

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can…

— George Eliot

“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a…

— George Eliot

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of…

— George Eliot

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may…

— George Eliot

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children…

— George Eliot

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she…

— George Eliot

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our…

— George Eliot

“Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff. You’ll never persuade me that I can’t tell what…

— George Eliot

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the…

— George Eliot

“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else…

— George Eliot

“If you want to know more particularly how Mary looked, ten to one you will see a face like hers in the…

— George Eliot

“Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded…

— George Eliot

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to…

— George Eliot

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would…

— George Eliot

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

— George Eliot

“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”

— George Eliot

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

— George Eliot

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels…

— George Eliot

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.…

— George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth…

— George Eliot

“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will…

— George Eliot

“Poor child! it was very early for her to know one of those supreme moments in life when all we have hoped…

— George Eliot