Quotes 661 till 680 of 797.
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Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
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To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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