Salt Export Purpose

Famous quotes containing the words salt, export and/or purpose:

“Of all the flavors one eats, salt is indispensable; wherever one goes in the world, one’s mother is dearest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)