Early Change

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or change:

    “Today’s 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)

    “When Learning’s Triumph o’er her barb’rous Foes
    First rear’d the Stage, immortal Shakespear rose;
    Each Change of many-colour’d Life he drew,
    Exhausted Worlds, and then imagin’d new:”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)