All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Children”

“Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.”
“Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.”
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.”
“When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.”
“Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.”
“A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." â€”WORDSWORTH.”
“I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
“We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.”
“Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.”
“A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.”
“All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”
“Men and women are but children of a larger growth.”

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