Quotes 701 till 720 of 797.
-
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
-
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
-
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
-
We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008) -
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
-
We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.
-
Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.
-
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
-
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
-
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
-
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
-
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
-
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
-
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
-
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
-
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
-
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
The African Queen (1935) -
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
-
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
All mother-child famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 36)
