Famous quotes containing the words richard, early, political and/or career:
“Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bam-boom!”
—Little Richard (b. 1932)
“We passed the Childrens Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your childrens infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or getting married! Thats total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art scientific parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)