Parent Materials

Famous quotes containing the words parent and/or materials:

    Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,
    And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
    Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)

    In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)