Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or growth:
“The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summer and wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us—it has come to stay—and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)