Babes Quotes
50 quotes by 44 authors
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
— John Stuart Blackie
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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
— William Butler Yeats
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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that…
— Bridget Moynahan
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E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for…
— Frederick Douglass
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters;…
— Euripides
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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
— Mark Twain
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be…
— Vance Havner
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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
— Vance Havner
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Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
— Stephen Crane
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There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.
— Steve Goodman
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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried…
— William Shakespeare
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Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening…
— Luther Burbank
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I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people…
— Geronimo
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I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff,…
— Kathleen Hanna
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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back…
— Joan Jett
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Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing…
— Samuel R. Delany
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