Small Animal Track

Famous quotes containing the words small, animal and/or track:

“What strikes me as odd now is how much my father managed to get across to me without those heart-to-hearts which I’ve read about fathers and sons having in the study or in the rowboat or in the car.... Somehow I understood completely how he expected me to behave, in small matters as well as large, even though I can’t remember being given any lectures about it beyond the occasional, undramatic “You might as well be a mensch.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)