Pickup Truck/cultural Significance

Famous quotes containing the words truck, cultural and/or significance:

“If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.”
—Jackie Mason (b. 1931)

“If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being “mother’s only accomplishment,” today’s children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child’s needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)

“I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)