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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. -- Aeschylus
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. -- Mac Thornberry
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. -- Mal Peet
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. -- J. G. Ballard
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. -- Theodore Bikel
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them. -- James Hillman
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren. -- Doc Hastings
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return. -- Otto Frank
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Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. -- Jonathan Kozol
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. -- Jo Brand
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience. -- John George Nicolay
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone. -- Cate Blanchett
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter. -- David Novak
I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way. -- Cindy Sheehan
Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns. -- Juan Williams
One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. -- Suzanne Collins
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. -- Jack Black
Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it." -- Bruce Sterling
There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging. -- Tim Minchin
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option -- James Patterson
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. -- Erik Erikson
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder. -- James Maxton
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries, -- Ashley Judd
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. -- Doug Stanhope
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. -- Ted Nelson
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity... -- John Muir
She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die. -- Melissa Bank
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad. -- Gary Paulsen
Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace. -- Remi Kanazi
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common. -- Robert Paul Weston
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children. -- Kumi Naidoo
The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere. -- Ravi Zacharias
Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. -- Amy Poehler
Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. -- Nancy Gibbs
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness. -- Nita Lowey
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. -- Francis Bacon
The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity. -- Taner Akçam
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about. -- John Powell
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. -- Mary Wesley
All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children. -- John Green
If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem. -- Julio Frenk
[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death. -- Edith Roosevelt
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe. -- Shane Claiborne
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste. -- Abdallah II
What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed. -- Rosie Batty

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