Famous quotes containing the words home, runs and/or hit:
“In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkeeper and his patrons on which was written For Gods sake organize a temperance society.”
—Federal Writers Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Some say existence like a Pirouot
And Pirouette, forever in one place,
Stands still and dances, but it runs away;
It seriously, sadly, runs away
To fill the abysss void with emptiness.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“At about that time I was once sitting at my place and whisperingit was naughty, I knowwith my neighbor. Then you, Herr Professor Rudner, got up from your desk, came calmly down the aisle to me: Did you speak? and slapped me smack in the face. And Ithe fury is inside me to this dayI didnt hit back. Such were the methods of objectivity.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)