Famous quotes containing the words successful, child and/or actor:
“In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Behold here the fate of a sailor! They give him the last toss, and no one asks whose child he was.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)