"Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?"

-- Evangeline Booth

#Children Quotes #Littles Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”
“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
“The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.”
“I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.”
“With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.”
“For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.”
“Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.”

Source : Charles A. Beard (2017). “Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South”, p.9, Courier Dover Publications
“I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.”

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