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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

unknown author

children

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You know I'd a shot her when she come runnin' up here, but she's got the blame best lookin' legs I ever seen.... Well, I'll be a s... - MORE You know I'd a shot her when she come runnin' up here, but she's got the blame best lookin' legs I ever seen.... Well, I'll be a suck egg mule—legs like that and can shoot too.

Leigh Brackett

women | guns

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I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.

Gwendolyn Brooks

comfort

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Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through y... - MORE Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

Georg Büchner

oppression | tyranny

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Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with strong wills. Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with strong wills.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

luxury | wealth

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The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities—otherwise it would not be... - MORE The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities—otherwise it would not be able to learn—but in addition, some "information" or "programs" are built-in at birth (for example, the child does not have to learn how to suck, for this is an innate reflex); there is a working memory, in which the child keeps those items of knowledge that are being used at a particular moment; and there is a permanent memory, which is, in Locke's terms, largely a "blank tablet" at birth, but which has a storage capacity that makes a hard disk pale into insignificance. The child gradually builds up a symbolic representation of the world around it, so there must be some inner "language" or medium of representation; even a newborn baby is starting to see and taste and smell and hear and touch, and to remember the more striking of its experiences, so the internal medium by which it represents and stores these impressions cannot be the native language (of which it is still ignorant. Jerry Fodor [in The Language of Thought] has discussed this inbuilt "language of thought," which is similar conceptually to the "machine language" that is built into the personal computer and about which most users remain completely ignorant).

John Cleverley

computers | mind, the

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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.... - MORE The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.

Abraham Cowley

water

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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Aleister Crowley

universe, the

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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. The... - MORE The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

Bette Davis

weakness

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Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor's hat until it's grey li... - MORE Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor's hat until it's grey like a dunce's cap.

Franz Grillparzer

senility | colors | academics

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