Children Of Men Quotes

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Men, Order

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• The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

  John Locke

  Children, Blessing, Men

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• Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.

  Enoch

  Children, Men, Wife

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• No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

  John Alfred Langford

  Children, Book, Men

  John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”

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• The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Honesty, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Revelation need not all come at once. It may be incremental. 'Saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more' (2 Nephi 28:30). Patience and perseverance are part of our eternal progression.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Perseverance, Children, Blessed

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• I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the program. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Men, Israel

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• Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men.

  Louis Berkhof

  Art, Children, Blessing

  Louis Berkhof (0101). “Systematic Theology”, p.551

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• To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, Men, People

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1848). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest; Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory”, p.61

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• Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

  Miyuki Miyabe

  Children, Men, Eternal

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• Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

  Aristophanes

  Children, Men, Humanity

  Aristophanes, John Hookham Frere (1839). “The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the Original”, p.38

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• By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Abuse

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Children, Men, Giving

  "'Children of Men'". www.salon.com. December 25, 2006.

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• It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.63, Coyote Canyon Press

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• America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.

  B. C. Forbes

  Brother, Children, Eye

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• The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Children, Real, Men

  "Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Y tu mamá también” searches for hope in “Children of Men”". Interview with Mark Rahner, www.seattletimes.com. December 22, 2006.

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• Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

  Aristophanes

  Children, Men, Way

  "Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.

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• Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.

  Count of St. Germain

  Children, Real, Blessed

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• People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Eye, Men

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”

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• The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get you to continue it after you become men and women, even through your whole lives. This is especially needed in the generation in which you live, for you live in as important a generation as the children of men ever saw, and it is far more important that you should begin early to keep a journal and follow the practice while you live, than that other generations should do so.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Men, Practice

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• Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Children, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1877). “Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems”

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• If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

  Archibald Alexander

  Children, Men, Miserable

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  Karl Barth

  Children, Men

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

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• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Parenting, Important

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