Raised Floors

Famous quotes containing the words raised and/or floors:

“The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)