Surprise Onside Kicks

Famous quotes containing the words surprise and/or kicks:

“Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

“When a man dies he kicks the dust.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)