Lydia Maria Child Quotes

#1. The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#2. Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#3. Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#4. As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

Koichiro Matsuura

#5. A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#6. It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. I don't want to hope for anything anymore. I don't want to pray that Max is alive and safe. Or Alex Steiner.
Because the world did not deserve them.

Markus Zusak

#8. We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#9. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#10. Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose.

Karen Ranney

#11. A black semiplume, the barbs striped deep red, crossed her palm. She lifted it to her face, and her breath trembled the afterfeather. A perfect copy of the plume still burned into her arm, first a curse, now the only thing she had to prove that he had ever touched her.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#12. Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. They had, indeed, come in New York, as witness this from the pen of Lydia Maria Child, who was at the time (August 15) in Brooklyn. Says she: "I have not ventured

Archibald Henry Grimke

#14. Beer is a good family drink.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#15. We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#16. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#17. Since I do not believe in so many things, it is not difficult for me to disbelieve in the Fall as well, so that I am entirely convinced I will be telling the truth to the people.

Isaac Asimov

#18. If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#19. Flour boiled thoroughly in milk, so as to make quite a thick porridge, is good in cases of dysentery.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#20. A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness. In

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#21. Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

Deb Caletti

#22. Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#23. One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#24. Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#25. Plantain leaves laid upon a wound are cooling and healing. Half

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#26. Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

Maajid Nawaz

#27. When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

Alicia Silverstone

#28. Varnishing Gilded Frames, 117

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#29. The third part of my life was where I was told the meaning of my life. One knows the weight of a thing when it is strong enough to bear its own meaning, to hear its own truth told to it, and yet to remain.

Jesse Ball

#30. Steam-baths are excellent for severe colds, and for some disorders in the bowels.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#31. The fact is, our girls have no home education.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#32. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

Nicolle Wallace

#33. An effort made for the happiness of other lifts us above.

Lydia Maria Francis Child