Famous quotes containing the words child and/or heap:
“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their childs approval, more alert to the childs emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the childs suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weaponthe power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (16451696)
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