#children

Adults under threat feel like children. ↗

— Martha Beck

#feel #like #threat #under

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#hands #heaven #hold #take #which

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#destiny #extent #fail #god #legacy

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#dickens #had #humanity #me #never

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#machines #nothing #producing #women #women are

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. ↗

— Amanda Coplin

#death #literature-quotes #death

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#children #committed #end #quietly #talking

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#actually #children #generation #give #going

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

#children #even #greater #miracle #own

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. ↗

— Charles Bronson

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