Small Slice American

Famous quotes containing the words small, slice and/or american:

“The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)

“And silence her six
And mix
Her spices and core
And slice her apples, and find her four.
Continuing her part
Of the world’s business.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)