Strides

Famous quotes containing the word strides:

“The steps toward the emancipation of women are first intellectual, then industrial, lastly legal and political. Great strides in the first two of these stages already have been made of millions of women who do not yet perceive that it is surely carrying them towards the last.”
—Ellen Battelle Dietrick, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

“He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)