Child Heap

Famous quotes containing the words child and/or heap:

“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)