#dre

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. ↗

— Francis Xavier

#anyone #children #give #give me #may

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#compassion #youth #age

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything. ↗

— Dick York

#anything #being #dressing #dressing room #feeling

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream. ↗

— Andrew Young

#american dream #battling #believe #committed #companies

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#forward #free #free time #i #initially

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born. ↗

— George MacDonald

#children #youth #age

She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#daydreaming #follow-your-heart #imagination #age

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. ↗

— Don Marquis

#humorous #incorrigible #age

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires? ↗

— Bruce Chatwin

#writing #age

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #haiku #haikus #humanity #hybrids