"Children pick up words as pigeons peas And……" — John Ray
"Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please."
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51 Quotes by John Ray
John Ray has 51 quotes on this site.
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
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Never meet trouble half-way.
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He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in…
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Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of…
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
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The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
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They love too much that die for love.
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
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More Children Quotes
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one of 18,494 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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