Extend and Extinguish

Famous quotes containing the words extend and, extend and/or extinguish:

    Today’s fathers and mothers—with only the American dream for guidance—extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally, and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.
    Stella Chess (20th century)

    A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    Distant water cannot extinguish nearby fire.
    Chinese proverb.