Famous quotes containing the words mission, san and/or carlos:
“We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“You said, Unless there is some spark, some
spirit we keep within ourselves, life, a
continuing life’s impossible—and it is all
we have. There is no other life, only the one.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)