Hardy

Famous quotes containing the word hardy:

    Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
    Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897)

    And such are we—
    Unreasoning, sanguine, visionary—
    That I can hope
    Health, love, friends, scope
    In full for thee; can dream thou’lt find
    Joys seldom yet attained by humankind!
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called “permissiveness” but is really neglect.
    C. John Sommerville (20th century)