Famous quotes containing the words adopted and/or child:
“It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there
Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”
—Lydia M. Child (1802–1880)