Loss

Famous quotes containing the word loss:

“No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (1836–1903)

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)