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Children Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he…
- My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,…
- Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your…
- I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I…
- The soul is healed by being with children.
- Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty…
- You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
- Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.'…
- Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide…
- Woe to the man who offends a small child!
- What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal…
- It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
- ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall…
- One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not…
- Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
- Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one…
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- 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