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Children Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
- Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not…
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who…
- No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
- Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
- ...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the…
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can…
- It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may…
- The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
- Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless…
- The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the…
- Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.
- The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old…
- The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
- The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children…
- For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
- There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
- That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
- The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
- How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
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- 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