Wall Street Crash

Famous quotes containing the words wall street, wall, street and/or crash:

    “This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars—an exciting day in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.”
    —Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

    “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John, 8:32.

    These words are inscribed on the wall of the main lobby at the CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia.

    “There was an Old Man who supposed,
    That the street door was partially closed;”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    “The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
    Throws down in front of us is not to bar
    Our passage to our journey’s end for good,
    But just to ask us who we think we are....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)