Tail/function

Famous quotes containing the words tail and/or function:

“It is better to be the head of the chicken than the tail of an ox.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The mother’s and father’s attitudes toward the child correspond to the child’s own needs.... Mother has the function of making him secure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)