Jacob A. Riis

Quotes

• “When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as...”
• “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet...”
• “Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.”
• “Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”