Famous quotes containing the words child, labour and/or convention:
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”
—Lydia M. Child (1802–1880)
“A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)