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They are children of many men, our words


Giorgos Seferis

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MARIANA FULGER Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How m...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
MARINA ABROMOVIC You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ...
RALPH ABERNATHY Men of few words are the best men.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Ch...
RALPH ABERNATHY If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI Children act on the words they hear.
May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Miracles are not for grown men, they are for children or unbelievers.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting hon...
KURT VONNEGUT When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially child...
MARTIN LUTHER Miracles are not for matured men, they are for children or for unbelievers.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Too many of our brave men and women, our heroes, are falling through the cracks,
MARTY MEEHAN Men of few words are the best men."

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK These men are the people many in our society honor and celebrate. They are not being charged with an...
ART LEACH I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, th...
KATHARINE GRAHAM We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families i...
JIM WALLIS Politics: Poly.
MANY People use their intuition with things they care about. Many women are most intuitive with their re...
SONIA CHOQUETTE There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than...
BETTY HART Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK Practice makes perfect. How many times have parents uttered those words to encourage their children ...
VIKRANT PARSAI Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
RUDYARD KIPLING Our children are not going to be just "our children"-they are going to be other people's husbands an...
DR. MARY S. CALDERONE I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our chil...
KAILASH SATYARTHI Very clearly, the increase in diabetes prevalence among children signals the beginning of multiple h...
ED WEISBART They try to destroy our dignity, rape our women, our sisters, shoot the men with lizard guns, burnin...
AHMED MANSOUR Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have many teachers who can say they are now teaching children of students they've taught.
ANGELA MARTIN More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for m...
EDMUND SELOUS Too many men are absent at the crucial time when they are needed.
ANTHONY ROBERTS Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.
CAROLEE DEAN Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to ...
SADIK SELIMOVIC The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought ...
CHIEF JOSEPH They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.
MARALEE MCKEE Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-u...
MARIA MONTESSORI We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the s...
JOHN LOCKE Air Force families transferring into the Randolph Air Force Base area hear about us before they even...
ED THORPE Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children...
EVAN BAYH Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to un...
ALAN PATON Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t...
DIRK BENEDICT The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our ...
CHIEF JOSEPH FOUR OUT OF TEN CHILDREN ARE WITHOUT A SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION So many children are leaving sch...
JOSEPH MUSCAT Where I live, many children are out of school because of diseases they catch from their drinking wat...
DOLLY AKHTER Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to u...
ALAN PATON Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Men hear loud voices, but they listen to strong words.
TOBA BETA Children are the only innocent people in this world, they are the victims of our actions.
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
ALEXANDRA PETRI Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, chi...
GEORGE ELIOT Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is w...
HARVEY MILK Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Many men die at twenty- five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. S...
CHIEF SEATTLE I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing wor...
JANE YOLEN Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for...
MATT HAIG From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words ...
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects tha...
DUANE ALEXANDER Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
JOHN DRYDEN Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
DIANE ARBUS ...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu...
DONALD MILLER The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.
MARGARITA ENGLE The Children of Men
CHARLIE HUNNAM Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. ...
LOUIS MACNEICE Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
MARTIAL Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
HORACE A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a...
JOHN NELSON DARBY Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the thin...
ROSALEEN DICKSON Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".
SHERRY ARGOV I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
MICHAEL JACKSON Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
JONATHAN SWIFT The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us...
BIBLE There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough...
VIRAJ J. MAHAJAN Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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