Redeeming Social Importance

Famous quotes containing the words redeeming, social and/or importance:

“Now you rise,
a city from the sea,
born long before Alexandria was,
straightway from God you have come
into your redeeming skin.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn’t want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)