Famous quotes containing the word smallest:
“He put before them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:31,32.
“... for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall, U.S. businesswoman. (1867-1945)
“Only the family, societys smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be strangers in a strange land, who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”
—Salvador Minuchin (20th century)