Best children & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.”

Children God Light Night Break Safe Secure Thee Dawn

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.”

Wells Children Light Used House Fire Mountain Horse Winter Climbs Climbing Cows Goats Climbing Mountain Livestock Winter Time Firewood

Author:Tamae Watanabe

“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.”

Way Giving Heart May Children Ideas Light Father Belief Teaching Example Concern Our Children Ill Our Family Your Children

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.”

Children Light Chance Family Darkness Movement Color Fortune Fantastic Tension Light And Darkness

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.”

Children Light Justice Abuse Protected Exploitation

Author:Ann Veneman

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.”

Children Light Water Sun Wave Glad Ships Tall Purple Vessel Flushing

Book:The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

Source: The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

“The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.”

Children Whole Light Differences Study Taste Devil Meat Convince Organize Thanksgiving

Author:Brigham Young

“Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.”

People Mind Children Light Strong Chosen Opponents Nicknames Philistines

Author:Matthew Arnold

“It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.”

Ifs World Should Children Persons Light Darkness Teacher Nice Love You Filled Dancing Enlightened Unusual Light And Darkness Liberated Lovable Children Playing Vortex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.”

Children Littles Light Knowing Meditation Cry Yoga Gods Will Knowing God Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.”

Ifs Children I Can Light Spirit Asks Sin Accepting Darkness Spirit Of God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.”

World Children Light Church This World Lows Shadow

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.”

Thinking Men World Children Has Beens Sometimes Done Light Turns Impossible Becoming Hero Bounds Uncommon Common Man

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.”

Men Children Hard Dream Light Old Man

Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

“For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.”

World Children Light Night Healing Watches Air Childhood Western My Children Artificial Pollution Galaxy Western World Glare Air Pollution Artificial Light

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”

Ifs Children Soul Light Mother Black White Angel My Soul Southern Bores

Author:William Blake

“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.”

Source: American Gods

“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”

“I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at least awakened me to believe in the possibility that I may yet make some impression with my "light" - my "dews" - my "breezes" - my bloom and freshness, - no one of which qualities has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.”

Knows World Believe May Children Light Quality Possibility Ought Six My Friends Regard Sake Oneself Impression Painter My Children Fifty Canvas Breeze Awakened Dew Freshness Knowing Oneself

Author:John Constable

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