Lou Henry Hoover quotes
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“I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.”
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“That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.”
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“I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.”
-- Lou Henry Hoover -
“... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.”
-- Lou Henry Hoover -
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“I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.”
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“The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.”
-- Lou Henry Hoover -
“The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.”
-- Lou Henry Hoover
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“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
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“I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.”
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