Adams

Famous quotes containing the word adams:

    The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;Mnot the graceful and dignified decay of an oriental, but the vulgar and sordid decay of a bankrupt cotton-mill.
    —Henry Brooks. Adams (1838–1918)

    Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Our [adult] children have an adult’s right to make their own choices and have the responsibility of living with the consequences. If we make their problems ours, they avoid that responsibility, and we are faced with problems we can’t and shouldn’t solve.
    —Jane Adams (20th century)