Occupy Wall Street

Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:

    “This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars—an exciting day in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.”
    —Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

    “... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “Cooling, so cooling,
    with a wall against my feet,
    midday sleep—behold.”
    —Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)

    “I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)