Famous quotes containing the words edge and/or length:
“The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the villages edge in such signs as Drive Keerful, Dont Hit Our Young uns, and You-all Hurry BackMlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his childs outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the childs innocence.”
—Christoph Meckel (20th century)
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