Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or state:
“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting the Scripture, ‘If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)