Famous quotes containing the words department store, department, store and/or chain:
“In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
—Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
“This is being young,
Assumption of the startled century
Like new store clothes....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
—William James (1842–1910)