Friends Service Committee

Famous quotes containing the words friends, service and/or committee:

    “All earthly things is but vanity:
    Beauty, Strength, and Discretion do man forsake,
    Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake—
    All fleeth save Good Deeds, and that am I.”
    —Unknown. Everyman (l. 870–873)

    “Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there’s no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
    —Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)

    “The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)