Famous quotes containing the words ten, million and/or slaves:
“Oh, the army. Well I planted twenty-four gardens the first ten years of our marriage. Never stayed long enough to see a single bloom.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)