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Children Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
- Children are certainly too good to be true.
- Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
- To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and…
- A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he…
- Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
- The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love…
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