Famous quotes containing the words future, spot and/or price:
“[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The tenderest spot in a man’s make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)