Famous quotes containing the words children, general, hospital, current and/or characters:
“The children of childish parents age quickly.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“The sun his hand uncloses like a statue,
Irrevocably: thereby such light is freed
That all the dingy hospital of snow
Dies back to ditches.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“If the current is right, one can drift to success.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)