Famous quotes containing the words shaped, cutting and/or edge:
“To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lostthat is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilizationis to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“So much for Mrs. Hollis nine months of pain and 20 years of hope.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Nameless GI, Objective Burma, cutting dog tags off a dead GI (1945)
“The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the villages edge in such signs as Drive Keerful, Dont Hit Our Young uns, and You-all Hurry BackMlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)