Relief Column

Famous quotes containing the words relief and/or column:

    “We realize that we are laggards from the past century, still living in what Marx kindly calls ‘the idiocy of rural life,’ and we know that our rural life is like that of the past, not like that of much of the present.”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”
    —Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)