Famous quotes containing the words franklin, roosevelt, governor and/or york:
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“Autobiographies are ... only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I long for a land that does not yet exist, a place where women are valued both for their intellects and their motherhood and where choices between career and nurturing are somehow less stark.”
—“Where Mothers Matter,” New York Times Magazine (February 20, 1994)