Famous quotes containing the words american and/or children:
“The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Summer wanes; the children are grown;
Fun and frolic no more he knows;”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)