Focuses Or Foci Quotes

#1. Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.

Gary Krist

#2. We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Alice Miller

#3. To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

Madame De Stael

#4. We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less.

Brian Morton

#5. I have to go around and ask people for money, of course, quite a lot. And it's quite an art to ask people for money. But I think that I have to ask them for money for the things that I'm interested in, and of course, money breeds money.

Brooke Astor

#6. The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

J. Anthony Lukas