LIVING in Classic Quotes

1  It was while living with her that I began to get together my first library.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

2  I had not lived with her many weeks, however, before I began to understand her.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

3  In Washington I saw girls whose mothers were earning their living by laundrying.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

4  All who lived in the little town were in one way or another connected with the salt business.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

5  I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the near-by plantations.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

6  In the portion of Virginia where I lived it was common to use flax as part of the clothing for the slaves.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

7  I knew that I could sweep, for Mrs. Ruffner had thoroughly taught me how to do that when I lived with her.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

8  In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we were all declared free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

9  We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

10  I cannot now recall how long I lived with Mrs. Ruffner before going to Hampton, but I think it must have been a year and a half.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

11  He seemed at that time to be supremely happy, because he was living, as he expressed it, through one week that was free from sin.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

12  These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

13  They had no strength with which to earn a living in a strange place and among strange people, even if they had been sure where to find a new place of abode.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

14  While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy way to make a living.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

15  Aside from this, we wanted to give them such a practical knowledge of some one industry, together with the spirit of industry, thrift, and economy, that they would be sure of knowing how to make a living after they had left us.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

16  Notwithstanding that the Emancipation Proclamation freed him from any obligation to his master, this black man walked the greater portion of the distance back to where his old master lived in Virginia, and placed the last dollar, with interest, in his hands.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

17  Having lived for a number of years in the midst of comfortable surroundings, they were not as much inclined as the Hampton students to go into the country districts of the South, where there was little of comfort, to take up work for our people, and they were more inclined to yield to the temptation to become hotel waiters and Pullman-car porters as their life-work.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.