Famous quotes containing the word rich:
“Peter: Ill bet there isnt a good piggy-back rider in your whole family. I never knew a rich man yet who could piggy-back ride.
Ellie: Youre prejudiced.
Peter: You show me a good piggy-backer and Ill show you a real human. Now you take Abraham Lincoln, for instance. A natural piggy-backer.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)
“Time in the hand is not control of time,
Nor shattered fragments of an instrument
A proof against the wind; the wind will rise,
We can only close the shutters.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)