Vicarious Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the words vicarious and/or ordinary:

“Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country. It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)