Big Ten Defensive

Famous quotes containing the words big, ten and/or defensive:

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep in the memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)