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Letter "C" » Children
«It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Children,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
desire to know, discrimination, excite, falsehoods
«It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.»
«It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.»
«In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world»
Author: Mary Heaton Vorse
| About:
Chance,
Children,
Civilization,
Living
| Keywords:
analysis, by the way, in the last analysis
«It was an accident, although I?ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child ? in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people?s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor?s course is set even before he?s out of the cradle.»
«In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world»
«In Brazil every kid starts playing street football very early. It's in our blood. As a professional I started at Sao Cristovao in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Of course I also played in the beach soccer league, barefoot.»
Author: Ronaldo
(Soccer Player)
| About:
Children,
Sports
| Keywords:
football league, In the City, league, professional football, Rio, Rio de Janeiro, soccer
«It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children»
«It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Children,
Christmas
| Keywords:
Christmas, founder, foundering, founders, mighty, The Founders
«I am fond of children - except boys»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
fond
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