Jacob August Riis Professions : Journalist Born : May 3, 1849 Died : May 26, 1914 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Jacob August Riis The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob August Riis saving humor thinking Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat. Jacob August Riis long-ago fate struggle The slum is the measure of civilization. Jacob August Riis slums cities civilization 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 August Riis leadership inspiring motivational Some defeats are only installments to victory. Jacob August Riis victory inspiring children I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be. Jacob August Riis flower photography latin Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. Jacob August Riis tricks expected men 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 August Riis perseverance rocks determination When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter 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 that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob August Riis Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors
