Hungry Mother State

Famous quotes containing the words hungry, mother and/or state:

    There’s an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
    Cole Porter (1893–1964)

    From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
    —R.D. (Ronald David)

    Feign then what’s by a decent tact believed
    And act that state is only so conceived,
    And build an edifice of form
    For house where phantoms may keep warm.
    William Empson (1906–1984)