Famous quotes containing the words american, engineering and/or record:
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)
“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“One foot in each great ocean
Is a record stride or stretch.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)