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Children Quotes by Marguerite Duras
- A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them…
- To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble…
- For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them…
- When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is…
- Life is only lived full-time by women with children.
- I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I…
- The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man…
- We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
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