CHILDREN in Classic Quotes

1  They must get married and have children.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  He wanted a wife and he wanted children and, if he did not acquire them soon, it would be too late.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  And the daughters of their old friends had long since married and were raising small children of their own.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  But he was not going to marry just anyone, as Mr. Calvert had done, taking to wife the Yankee governess of his motherless children.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  Swarms of children, black and white, ran yelling about the newly green lawn, playing hopscotch and tag and boasting how much they were going to eat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  Ellen O'Hara was thirty-two years old, and, according to the standards of her day, she was a middle-aged woman, one who had borne six children and buried three.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  I know what I'm talking about because I had some cousins who married each other and I give you my word their children all turned out as popeyed as bullfrogs, poor things.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  Everyone was very polite and kind to her because he felt sorry for her, but no one could forget that she had compounded her initial error of birth by being the governess of Mr. Calvert's children.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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11  Colts overflowed the paddock onto the front lawn, even as her eight children overflowed the rambling house on the hill, and colts and sons and daughters and hunting dogs tagged after her as she went about the plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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13  His arrival was always amid a bedlam of hounds barking and small black children shouting as they raced to meet him, quarreling for the privilege of holding his horse and squirming and grinning under his good-natured insults.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  She had borne eight children, as red of hair and as full of life as she, and had raised them most successfully, so the County said, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the stern discipline she gave the colts she bred.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  Gerald was likable, and the neighbors learned in time what the children, negroes and dogs discovered at first sight, that a kind heart, a ready and sympathetic ear and an open pocketbook lurked just behind his bawling voice and his truculent manner.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  To Mammy's indignation, her preferred playmates were not her demure sisters or the well-brought-up Wilkes girls but the negro children on the plantation and the boys of the neighborhood, and she could climb a tree or throw a rock as well as any of them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  The white children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankee politicians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of the neighborhood, fearful of confessing debts of honor upon the carpets of their fathers, found him a friend in need.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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