Walter Adam Tucker

Famous quotes containing the words walter, adam and/or tucker:

    “Our passions are most like to floods and streams,
    The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?”
    —John Ball (hanged 1381)

    “Society’s double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.”
    —Anne Tucker (b. 1945)