Stead

Famous quotes containing the word stead:

“People who don’t like scandals shouldn’t be in finance.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)