God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different they have… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments. — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
