Family
Both of his parents were very wealthy by inheritance. His mother inherited money from Shropshire and his father from North Ireland. It is said Betty’s father would frivolously spend his inheritance on anything, resulting in his losing a large portion of it. This loss might be a huge contribution to the extreme exploitation of his child prodigy.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“A family in harmony will prosper in everything.”
—Chinese proverb.
“With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping “homeliness” entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all “sentiment” is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called “the Public,” the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.”
—Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
“—the dark ajar, the rocks breaking with light,
and undisturbed, unbreathing flame,
colorless, sparkless, freely fed on straw,
and, lulled within, a family with pets,
—and looked and looked our infant sight away.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)