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“I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.”

Thinking Want Children Would Be Running Age Guy Doors

Author:Denise Van Outen

“Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.”

Children Littles Kids Funny Born Doors Dog Baby Cat Wet Babies Being Born

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.”

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.”

Children Ideas Today Animal Successful Environment Doors Position Tvs No Idea Programming Pursued Becoming Successful Insert

Author:William Jackson

“By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.”

Children Sometimes Wisdom Opportunity Doors Mercy Eight Paradise Islamic Repentance Baggage Seize The Opportunity

Author:Rumi

“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”

“History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.”

Children Done Lying Sex Wife Doors Crime Husband Murder Males Abortion Robbery Infanticide

Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve jammed the lock. Children are the only ones who might crouch down on all fours to stare at the red glow coming from under the door, as they wonder what lies behind it. But Vango had always been afraid of the glow.”

Children Might Lying Behinds Wonder Doors Fronts Red Opening Staring Frightened Locks Furniture Closed Doors Fours

Author:Timothee de Fombelle

“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.”

Should May Children Behinds Doors Abuse Committed Child Abuse Carpet Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Constance Briscoe

“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before”

Children Running Laughing Doors Land Wine Rose Running Away Closing Meadows Nevermore

Author:Johnny Mercer

“Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.”

Children Has Beens Philosophy Problem Certain Force Numbers Doors Philosophical Locks

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.”

Thinking Way Children Today Parent Doors Conscious Police Males Greek Adolescence Honored Erotic Magnetism

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”