Colbert Worked

Famous quotes containing the words colbert and/or worked:

“Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.”
—Claudette Colbert (20th century)

“Tailor’s work—the finishing of men’s outside garments—was the “trade” learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s], and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)