Famous quotes containing the words irish, set and/or dancing:
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making ladies dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“This is Gods countryWhy set it on fire and make it look like hell?”
—For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Yes, dance. Dance and dream. Dream that youre Mrs. Henry Jekyll of Harley Street, dancing with your own butler and six footmen. Dream that theyve all turned into white mice and crawled into an eternal pumpkin.”
—John Lee Mahin (19021984)