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)

“I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women:
I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.
Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken,
Look! It is there!”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“The child says nothing but what is heard by the fire.”
—Unknown (20th century)