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Children Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
- My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
- Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!
- ...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have…
- A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,…
- In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her…
- The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
- It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there…
- I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…
- …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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