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Quotes About Children

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in terms of milk, oatmeal, nurse, diapers. ...Dear dream children, how much more beautiful you are, dazzling little creatures who flutter (all dream children must flutter) on golden, golden wings.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hay una cosa segura, más segura que ninguna: los ricos hacen dinero y los pobres hacen… niños
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men——
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That—is
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after their cold baths in the evening.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Una cosa es segura, y nada lo es más: los ricos crían riqueza, y los pobres crían... hijos.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Weep not for me but for thy children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk. The
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
No,' she said; 'I'd never marry again. I've got my two children and I want myself for them. I like you--I like all clever men, you more than any--but you know me well enough to know that I'd never marry a clever man--' She broke off suddenly.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. Weep not for me but for thy children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
one thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time
~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual
~ Fannie Flagg
Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.
~ Fannie Flagg
and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor.
~ Fannie Flagg
They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh. Particularly when the children start coming.
~ Fannie Flagg
Every woman wants to get married and have children.
~ Fannie Flagg
Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong.
~ Fannie Flagg
As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss
~ Fannie Flagg