Owl/behavior

Famous quotes containing the words owl and/or behavior:

    The little owl flew through the night,
    As if the people in the air
    Were frightened and he frightened them,
    By being there....
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Children, randomly at first, hit upon something sooner or later that is their mother’s and/or father’s Achilles’ heel, a kind of behavior that especially upsets, offends, irritates or embarrasses them. One parent dislikes name-calling, another teasing...another bathroom jokes. For the parents, this behavior my have ties back to their childhood, many have been something not allowed, forbidden, and when it appears in the child, it causes high-voltage reaction in the parent.
    Ellen Galinsky (20th century)