Children Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Dolls Men Prayer
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you intend, O my God, to relinquish everything and love them. Why else do I find it so hard not to follow them when they pass me? [...] Why do I imagine how I would hold them close, right up to my breath, with an inexistable caution, these dolls whom life has played with, flinging their arms open with… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler 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 and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
