Small Slice American

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

    Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    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 Englishman’s strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American’s disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911)