Famous quotes containing the words providence and, providence, boston and/or railroad:
“Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
—Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)
“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)