Child Heap

Famous quotes containing the words child and/or heap:

“The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)