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Jacob August Riis Quotes Page 1 of 1Jacob August Riis May 3, 1849 - March 26, 1914 Nationality: Danish Category: Journalist Subcategory: Danish Journalist
| The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. | 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. | 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. |
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