Big Ten Selections

Famous quotes containing the words big, ten and/or selections:

    “I’m quite as big for me, “ said he,
    “As you are big for you.”
    John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922)

    It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)