Nordland General Store

Famous quotes containing the words general store, general and/or store:

“In former times and in less complex societies, children could find their way into the adult world by watching workers and perhaps giving them a hand; by lingering at the general store long enough to chat with, and overhear conversations of, adults...; by sharing and participating in the tasks of family and community that were necessary to survival. They were in, and of, the adult world while yet sensing themselves apart as children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
—A.J. (Arthur James)

“We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)