Famous quotes containing the words prominent, people and/or family:
“The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the soldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England’s hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“One banquet in a rich family could feed a poor man’s family for half a year.”
—Chinese proverb.