“The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours...” — Grace Abbott Quote

“The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.”

“Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.”

“I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.”

“The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.”

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

“I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.”

“Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.”

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”

“When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.”

“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.”

“'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it.”