George Eliot Quotes About Children

• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Children, Teaching

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Children, Deeds, May

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.681, Broadview Press

• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Family, Children, Littles

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola”, p.14, George Eliot

• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  George Eliot

  Mom, Mother, Children

• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Hero

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

  George Eliot

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

• Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Children, Niece, Passion

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Cheating, Children, Play

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.90, Wordsworth Editions

• In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  George Eliot (2014). “Silas Marner”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

• A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Earth

  George Eliot (2005). “Silas Marner”, p.6, Collector's Library

• In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

  George Eliot

  Children, Memories, Kindness

• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Art, Children, Ocean

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Needs

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

• We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

  George Eliot

  Children, Fate, Littles

• Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Children, Happy Times

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

• Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

  George Eliot

  Children, Simple, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.401, George Eliot

• A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

  George Eliot

  Children, Thinking, Chance

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.91

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Children, Lying, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

• Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Growth

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

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