purchases Quotes

“The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft-mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”

“And if you could just go and buy everything, what was the value of it? What was the value of a man?”

“When my grandparents moved to the United States, their first priority was to save enough money to buy this house . . . To them a house meant much more than shelter; it was a stake in their new country.”

“You have never tasted freedom, friend,” Dienekes spoke, “or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”

“Well satisfied with his purchases and feeling very elegant indeed, Babar now goes to the photographer to have his picture taken.”

“There was an Old Person of Mold, Who shrank from sensations of cold; So he purchased some muffs, some furs, and some fluffs, And wrapped himself well from the cold.”

“It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...”