Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:
“The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.”
—David Blankenhorn (20th century)
“Boy, I hate their empty shows,
Persian garlands I detest,
Bring me not the late-blown rose
Lingering after all the rest:
Plainer myrtle pleases me
Thus outstretched beneath my vine,
Myrtle more becoming thee,
Waiting with thy masters wine.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658)
“At Timons villalet us pass a day,
Where all cry out,What sums are thrown away!”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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