Famous quotes containing the words express and/or service:
“I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money. It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing ones best to express ones thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)