Famous quotes containing the words vicarious and/or acquisition:
“Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Whatever may be our just grievances in the southern states, it is fitting that we acknowledge that, considering their poverty and past relationship to the Negro race, they have done remarkably well for the cause of education among us. That the whole South should commit itself to the principle that the colored people have a right to be educated is an immense acquisition to the cause of popular education.”
—Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)