A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. “That’s Robert Speer, ” one said. “Something like that. He’s our man.

Marge Piercy
Some Similar Quotes
  1. A little truth seasons a lie like salt. - Jacqueline Carey

  2. Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. - Nancy B. Brewer

  3. Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. - Ruta Sepetys

  4. How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have... - Ruta Sepetys

  5. Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. - Sarah Sundin

More Quotes By Marge Piercy
  1. To Have Without Holding:Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, lovewith the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the roomsrustling the sheets and snapping the blindsthat thwack like rubber bandsin an open palm....

  2. The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

  3. Thinking about tracking.. .. Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.

  4. Subject that got people aroused . was Who Owns America? . <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>They had a chart going . filling in connections between the big local contractors and the steel companies and the city and county governments and the unions . <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>. and...

  5. I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

Related Topics