Period

Famous quotes containing the word period:

    “This [new] period of parenting is an intense one. Never will we know such responsibility, such productive and hard work, such potential for isolation in the caretaking role and such intimacy and close involvement in the growth and development of another human being.”
    —Joan Sheingold Ditzion and Dennie Palmer (20th century)

    “To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”
    —Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

    “A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)