Famous quotes containing the words american, idols and/or live:
“Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let “born again” patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
““The idols have seen lots of poverty,
Snakes and gold and lice,
But not the truth....””
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)
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