Quotes of Minor - somelinesforyou

“ The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ”

- Alden Nowlan

“ Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. ”

- Doug Larson

“ It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ”

- Galeazzo Ciano

“ Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ”

- Henry Clay

“ Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'. ”

- Jay Leno

“ Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. ”

- Lorraine Hansberry

“ All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ”

- Sally Kempton

“ Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids. ”

- Delia Ephron

“ He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ”

- George Berkeley

“ And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. ”

- Bible

“ We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody. ”

- Bob Anderson

“ Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us. ”

- Bruno Bettelheim

“ It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. ”

- Ed Howe

“ Yes, of course we were pretentious — what else is youth for? ”

- Julian Barnes

“ Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids. ”

- Olga Korbut

“ The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new. ”

- Elizabeth Hardwick

“ We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ It's tough raising teenagers in inner-city New Orleans. ”

- Robert Miller
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