Famous quotes containing the words pick and/or number:
“Chores begin when your child can pick it up, put it away, fold it, sort it, or carry it out the door.”
—Jean Ross Peterson (20th century)
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)