Famous quotes containing the words mother, jones and/or radio:
“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonnato prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? Its the sign of the misogynist.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)
“All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“Denouement to denouement, he took a personal pride in the
certain, certain way he lived his own, private life,
but nevertheless, they shut off his gas; nevertheless,
the bank foreclosed; nevertheless, the landlord called;
nevertheless, the radio broke,
And twelve oclock arrived just once too often,”
—Kenneth Fearing (19021961)