Hippopotamus/behavior

Famous quotes containing the words hippopotamus and/or behavior:

    Wildly dissimilar
    yet actuated by the same fear,
    the hippopotamus and the wild-deer
    hide by the same river.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    The fact that behavior is “normal,” or consistent with childhood development, does not necessarily make it desirable or acceptable...Undesirable impulses do not have to be embraces as something good in order to be accepted as normal. Neither does children’s behavior that is unacceptable have to be condemned as “bad,” in order to bring it under control.
    Elaine Heffner (20th century)