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When a life is at stake and it’s your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you just become fanatic. Nothing ever gets done unless it’s done by a fanatic.
Martin Sheenborn 1940AARP magazine interview (2008)
- Courage
My only regret about having four children is that I didn’t have four more.
Martin Sheenborn 1940Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates470–399 BC
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894My Shadow (1885)In context
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745A Modest Proposal (1729)In context
- Comedy
- Food
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
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 77
- God
I’ve been married too many times. How terrible to change children’s affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won’t be there next year.
Elizabeth Taylor1932–2011Elizabeth Taylor: An informal memoir (1965)
- Marriage
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Family
- God
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Saturday Night Live (1975)
- Comedy
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Interview with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television (May 27, 1955)
- Advice
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Intelligence
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Mark Twain1835–1910Letter to Annie Moffett Webster (1 September 1876)
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol1928–1987The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 6In context
- Nature