“n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
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American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914Related quotes
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 7
Context: They had made the mistake of thinking of a personality as some sort of possession, like a suit of clothes, which a person wears. But apart from a personality what is there? Some bones and flesh. A collection of legal statistics, perhaps, but surely no person. The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
“A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”
Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart
Source: Things Fall Apart
Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist
The Drama of the Gifted Child (Das Drama des begabten Kindes, 1979)
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 149
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 187.
Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 157–160
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Summations, Chapter 61
Context: The mother may suffer the child to fall sometimes, and to be hurt in diverse manners for its own profit, but she may never suffer that any manner of peril come to the child, for love. And though our earthly mother may suffer her child to perish, our heavenly Mother, Jesus, may not suffer us that are His children to perish: for He is All-mighty, All-wisdom, and All-love; and so is none but He, — blessed may He be!
