Famous quotes containing the words eleanor roosevelt, roosevelt, lady, united and/or states:
“You need not be proud of me.... I’m only being active till you can be again—it isn’t such a great desire on my part to serve the world and I’ll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Night makes no difference ‘twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i’ th’ dark.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
Gaping at the lady in the swing.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)