Famous quotes containing the words water, clock and/or development:
“Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before tis a peascod, or a codling when tis almost an apple. Tis with him in standing water between boy and man.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“John B. Watson, the most influential child-rearing expert [of the 1920s], warned that doting mothers could retard the development of children,... Demonstrations of affection were therefore limited. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)