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Children Quotes by Betty Smith
- And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell…
- The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
- Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water…
- Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
- Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to…
- It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
- It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in…
- In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
- Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never…
- It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good…
- Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon