Poor Children

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or children:

“We are poor passing facts,
warned by that to give
each figure in the photograph
his living name.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Romeo. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talk’st of nothing.
Mercutio. True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)