The collection / 5 fragments

The living archive

Passages, proverbs, and questions carried across the ages.

SearchTypeTopicEraCulture / collection labelCountry attributionTraditionOrder

Author

Leave empty for every voice. Browse all authors ↗

Culture labels and country attributions follow the source collections; earliest origins may be unknown.

5 results · Page 1 of 1Play this collection ▷

01Undated

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

Jacob A. Riis / quote

02Undated

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

Jacob A. Riis / quote

03Undated

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 blow that did it but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis / quote

04Undated

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

Jacob A. Riis / quote

05Undated

Look at a stone cutter 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 the last blow that did it but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis / quote