Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or children:
“A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)