Small Candle

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or candle:

    Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run—each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away—each a small separation, a small distancing.
    Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)

    “... But a coarse old man am I,
    I choose the second-best,
    I forget it all awhile
    Upon a woman’s breast.”
    Day-break and a candle end.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)