Daughter Tracy

Famous quotes containing the words daughter and/or tracy:

    “Sabra Cravat: I should think you’d be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
    Cim Cravat: Ruby isn’t an Indian hired girl. She’s the daughter of an Osage chief.
    Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
    Cim Cravat: She’s just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
    —Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    “Mrs. Zajac knows you didn’t try. You don’t just hand in junk to Mrs. Zajac. She’s been teaching an awful lot of years. She didn’t fall off the turnip cart yesterday. She told you she was an old-lady teacher.”
    —Christine Zajac, U.S. fifth-grade teacher. As quoted in Among Schoolchildren, “September” section, part 1, by Tracy Kidder (1989)