Children Quote by Francois Rabelais Download Open image “A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.” — Francois Rabelais ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Filled Fire Lit Vases Youth
A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents. — Rig Veda Copy Share Image
The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share
...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image