Jacob August Riis Quotes
- Some defeats are only installments to victory.
- Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did…
- Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
- The slum is the measure of civilization.
- When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a…
- Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at…
- The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
- I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.…