Famous quotes containing the words child and/or heap:
“If marriages were made by putting all the mens names into one sack and the womens 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 (18561950)
“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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