Child Heap

Famous quotes containing the words child and/or heap:

“Behold here the fate of a sailor! They give him the last toss, and no one asks whose child he was.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)