Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado,
The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes,
The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading
or do things worth the writing.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)