Relief Fragments

Famous quotes containing the words relief and/or fragments:

    “The other 1000 are principally the ‘old Yankee stock,’ who have lost the town, politically, to the Portuguese; who deplore the influx of the ‘off-Cape furriners’; and to whom a volume of genealogy is a piece of escape literature.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)