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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
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep.
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
William Blake1757–1827The Chimney Sweeper (1789)In context
- Family
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
William Blake1757–1827Holy Thursday (1794)In context
- Money
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.
Helena Bonham Carterborn 1966Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006
- Family
We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?
Bonoborn 1960Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005) by Jeffrey Sachs
- Life & Death
We each have the kind of children we deserve.
NBNachman of Bratslav
The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
NBNachman of Bratslav
A strict master will not have understanding sons.
NBNachman of Bratslav
Mother says as th’ two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way⁠—or always to have it. She doesn’t know which is th’ worst.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XVIIIIn context
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter IIn context
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
Albert Camus1913–1960Said at the Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948); reported in Resistance, Rebellion and Death (translation by Justin O’Brien, 1961), p. 73
- Good & Evil
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
Truman Capote1924–1984Local Color (1950)
- Age