Famous quotes containing the words small, arms and/or protective:
“It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls’ curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.”
—Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe (1865–1922)
“When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The Citizens’ Protective League of Denver, founded to “squelch the knocking and blackmailing newspapers in our beautiful but benighted city,” demanded that no news story, editorial, or advertisement unfit for fifteen-year-olds to read should be published, ....”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)