Famous quotes containing the words convenience, store and/or called:
“Your favor containing the question, as to whether I consider myself a new woman is before me. As a rule I do not consider myself at all. I am, and always have been a progressive woman, and while never directly attacking the conventionalities of society, have always done, or attempted to do those things which I have considered conducive to my health, convenience or emolument ...”
—Belva Lockwood (18301917)
“The first general store opened on the Cold Saturday of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the stores promoter, recorded in a letter: Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Our goal as a parent is to give life to our childrens learningto instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-disciplinean ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a childs learning and leave a childs dignity intact cannot be called disciplineit is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.”
—Barbara Coloroso (20th century)