Permanently Dependent Child

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

    “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station . . . if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their woman.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    And turned on him with such a daunting look,
    He said twice over before he knew himself:
    “Can’t a man speak of his own child he’s lost?”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)