Children Elements

Famous quotes containing the words children and/or elements:

“A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, “I want none of your good boys,Mgive me the bad ones.” And this is the reason, I suppose, why, as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared, and think they are going to die.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)