Quotes About Jacob Riis

#1. Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.

H.W. Brands

#2. Jacob Riis in his How the Other Half Lives

David McCullough

#3. The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob Riis

#4. Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

Graham Greene

#5. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

#6. Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

Jacob A. Riis

#7. We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive - and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. Though we were not born on the same day of the same month of the same year, we ask that Fate give us the satisfaction of dying on the same second of the same minute of the same hour.

Ken Liu

#9. How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?

Jacob A. Riis

#10. 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 crack showing in it.

Jacob Riis

#11. In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.

Jacob A. Riis

#12. There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

Joe Jamail

#13. It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

Matt Smith

#14. You don't have paperwork," Savitri said. "You give it all to me." "Is it done?" I asked. "As far as you know, yes," Savitri said.

John Scalzi

#15. Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Jacob Riis

#16. The slum is the measure of civilization.

Jacob Riis

#17. If he chooses combat I'll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get.

Rachel E. Carter

#18. Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

Robin Sharma

#19. Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.

Matt Groening

#20. Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Jacob August Riis

#21. He may have been a trifle wild.

Jacob A. Riis

#22. The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

Jacob A. Riis