Famous quotes containing the words potential and/or drop:
“A child is born with the potential ability to learn Chinese or Swahili, play a kazoo, climb a tree, make a strudel or a birdhouse, take pleasure in finding the coordinates of a star. Genetic inheritance determines a child’s abilities and weaknesses. But those who raise a child call forth from that matrix the traits and talents they consider important.”
—Emilie Buchwald (20th century)
“we drop into the soup
and drown
in the worry festering inside us,
lest our children
go so fast
they go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)