I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared. — Edwina Currie Copy Share Image
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of… — W. T. Cosgrave Copy Share Image
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
