Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or distance:
“Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”
—Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)
“As distance shows a horse’s strength, so time reveals a person’s heart.”
—Chinese proverb.