Null Leaf Child

Famous quotes containing the words null, leaf and/or child:

    “A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll;
    On plastic clay and leathern scroll,
    Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,
    And lo! the Press was found at last!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
    The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove
    and the child draws another inscrutable house.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)