Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Quotes

#1. The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.

Eric Schneiderman

#2. Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust.

Charles C. Mann

#3. I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)

Yenz Leonhardt

#4. I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.

Emma Hewitt

#5. I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

Ben Macintyre

#6. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

James Joyce

#7. Get my kush in California, Get my dro from Arizona

Lil' Wayne

#8. Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them.

Sylvain Reynard

#9. Never depend on another person for your happiness. If someone had the authority to give, then he or she had the authority to take away.

Sejal Badani

#10. She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.

Tom Robbins

#11. I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

Carl De Keyzer

#12. I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.

Domenico Dolce

#13. I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Samuel Richardson

#15. It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.

Theresa Serber Malkiel

#16. I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.

Holly Hunter