Blood Quote by John Gerstner

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a…

— Dave Hickey

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

— Jonathan Swift

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

— Saint Augustine

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired in the…

— Leontine R. Young

“Why tarnish a child's mirror with the stains of your own conflicts? Poisoning their innocence is not strength, it's the mark of a feeble…

— DON SANTO

Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of…

— Anton Chekhov

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little…

— Alexander Pope

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter…

— John Locke

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman