Causes Quote by Michel de Montaigne

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site…

— Fred Thompson

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but…

— Margaret Beckett

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as…

— Charles de Lint

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature…

— John Fowles

Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit…

— Anne Morice

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does…

— Emily Post

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse,…

— William Morris

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

— Tamsin Egerton

Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

— Camille Claudel

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to…

— Katherine Dunn

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves…

— Dalton McGuinty