Smell

Famous quotes containing the word smell:

    I love this child. Red-haired—patient and gentle like her mother—fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other. . . . It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way. . . . But for now, it’s jelly beans and “Old MacDonald” that unite us.
    Robert Fulghum (20th century)

    And though your daisies are an unwanted death,
    I wade through the smell of their cancer
    and recognize the prognosis,
    its cartful of loss . . .
    I say now,
    you gave what you could.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)