Famous quotes containing the words favorite, adult and/or contemporary:
“One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)