Famous quotes containing the words dent grant, julia, dent and/or grant:
“I may be old-fashioned. I dont like this modern movement.... And yet, there are certain sorts of work a woman may well do; teaching, being governess, or any taking care of children.”
—Julia Dent Grant (18261902)
“If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have doneit must and will inevitably give place to something better.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“Now only a dent in the earth marks the site of these dwellings, with buried cellar stones, and strawberries, raspberries, thimble-berries, hazel-bushes, and sumachs growing in the sunny sward there.... These cellar dents, like deserted fox burrows, old holes, are all that is left where once were the stir and bustle of human life, and fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, in some form and dialect or other were by turns discussed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“At your request
My father will grant precious things as trifles.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)