Famous quotes containing the word vital:
“With all the surgical skill and the vital rays lavished on him he should talk like alike a congressman at a filibuster.”
—Kenneth Langtry. Herbert L. Strock. Prof. Frankenstein (Whit Bissell)
“There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“... the hey-day of a womans life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902)