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)

    “There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

    “A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)