Jacob August Riis quotes

Some defeats are only installments to victory. (Jacob August Riis)
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. View quote
Jacob August Riis
The slum is the measure of civilization. View quote
Jacob August Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. View quote
Jacob August Riis
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. View quote
Jacob August Riis