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Children Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get…
- If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
- Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of…
- The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That…
- Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
- What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was…
- A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
- Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
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