Chickens Coming Home

Famous quotes containing the words chickens, coming and/or home:

    All praise of the hawk on fire in hawk-eyed dusk be sung,
    When his viperish fuse hangs looped with flames under the brand
    Wing, and blest shall
    Young
    Green chickens of the bay and bushes cluck, “dilly dilly,
    Come let us die.”
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Your mother named you. You and she just saw
    Each other in passing in the room upstairs,
    One coming this way into life, and one
    Going the other out of life you know?
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.
    David Elkind (20th century)