Triangle Shirtwaist Quotes

#1. Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.

Jarett Kobek

#2. 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

#3. I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

Terence Stamp

#4. Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

Chris Hughes

#5. 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

#6. Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even more strongly.

Frederick Lenz

#7. How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?

Jefferson Smith

#8. Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Lydia M. Child

#9. I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.

Jandy Nelson

#10. Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Henry Walter Bates

#11. People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

Michael Foot

#12. Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.

Lois P Frankel

#13. Buggy eyes supported her theory that there might be something off about her

S.M. Reine

#14. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

James Cook

#15. A person can be so beautiful when the heart is filled with love and the voice shivers with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. You have to voice your thoughts so you can know you're not the only one who's fucked up.

Tarryn Fisher