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It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745A Modest Proposal (1729)In context
- Charity
Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home! They will never be happy in this world, and when they are older they will be very sorry for it.
Carlo Collodi1826–1890The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881–1883), Chapter 4In context
- Family
The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021The World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, (1970).
- Nature
If you bungle raising your children I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960)
- Family
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 1:28 (KJV)In context
- Family
O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
The Bible (King James Version)Psalms (1611), Psalm 8:1–2 (KJV)In context
- God
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)In context
- Education
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 10:14 (KJV)In context