Permanently Dependent Child

Famous quotes containing the words permanently, dependent and/or child:

    “...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.”
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

    “One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.”
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    “A man growing old becomes a child again.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)