Famous quotes containing the words day, fast and/or pass:
“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Todays pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a changed perception of precocity. Several decades ago precocity was looked upon with great suspicion. The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult; thus the phrase early ripe, early rot!”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“Bring me an axe and spade,
Bring me a winding-sheet;
When I my grave have made
Let winds and tempests beat:
Then down Ill lie as cold as clay.
True love doth pass away!”
—William Blake (17571827)
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