Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a ...jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep aff...liction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know. That's what makes us tough. Rich fellows come up and they die. Their kids ain't no good and they die out. But we keepa com...in'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good, and they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live.... They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm right here to tell you, mister. There ain't nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. ...My pa was born here. We was all born on it. And some of us was killed on it. And some of us died on it. That's what makes it ourn. Bein' born on it. And workin' on it. And dyin' on it. And not no piece of paper with writin' on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Ming fall)... lived in a tree: "The brush May paint the mountains and streams Though the territory is lost."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When John Henry was a little fellow, You could hold him in the palm of your hand,... He said to his pa, "When I grow up I'm gonna be a steel-driving man. Gonna be a steel-driving man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she alread...y feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, i...s at the same time its ruling intellectual force. No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »