Hearing People

Famous quotes containing the words hearing and/or people:

    “To-night she will spread her brown hair on his pillow,
    But I shall be hearing the harsh cries of wild fowl.”
    —Patrick MacDonogh (1902–1961)

    “I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)