The Quaker Oats Company

Famous quotes containing the words quaker, oats and/or company:

“this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

““We’ll encounter opposition, won’t we, if we give women the same education that we give to men,” Socrates says to Galucon. “For then we’d have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem.” ... Convention and habit are women’s enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)