Jacob Riis Professions : Journalist Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Jacob Riis The slum is the measure of civilization. Jacob Riis slum measure civilization Some defeats are only installments to victory. Jacob Riis defeats only some victory The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob Riis live more think humor 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. Jacob Riis help nothing go look 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 Riis stone will look know I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis rock without look two Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors
