Famous quotes containing the word worth:
“I looked at my daughters, and my boyhood picture, and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given. For what person, except ones own children, would want so deeply and sincerely to have shared your childhood? Who else would think your insignificant and petty life so precious in the living, so rich in its expressiveness, that it would be worth partaking of what you were, to understand what you are?”
—Gerald Early (20th century)
“Ven youre a married man, Samivel, youll understand a good many things as you dont understand now; but vether its worth goin through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hours worth leaves us stupefied.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)