Famous quotes containing the words potential and/or drop:
“The germ of violence is laid bare in the child abuser by the sheer accident of his individual experience ... in a word, to a greater degree than we like to admit, we are all potential child abusers.”
—F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Mexican professor of pathology, author. Reflections on Child Abuse, Notes of an Anatomist (1985)
“How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his fathers or mothers life?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)