Famous quotes containing the words david and/or rand:
“If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not do pursue them sitting upon another man’s shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Rand and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)