Quotes by : Jacob A. Riis

When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred....

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

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

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

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack....