Top 32 Lydia Maria Francis Child Quotes
#1. Flour boiled thoroughly in milk, so as to make quite a thick porridge, is good in cases of dysentery.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#4. The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears. - Tribe Unknown
Erin O'Quinn
#5. I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
John Corey Whaley
#7. As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Richard Dawkins
#11. 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
#12. Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.
Cory Doctorow
#13. 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
#14. I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.
Bobby Bonilla
#15. Graham had stared through the bars for about five seconds when Lecter opened his eyes and said, "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court." "I keep getting it for Christmas.
Thomas Harris
#16. 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
#17. 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
#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
#20. 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
#21. If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai
#23. If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.
Rafael Cruz
#25. We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#26. American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic ... The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.
Dumas Malone
#28. Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#29. I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.
Thomas Kinkade
#32. Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.
Lydia Maria Francis Child