"Self-supporting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Linton. "The details would want a lot of working-out, of course: but there will be plenty of time for that. I would like to make it as nearly self-supporting as possible, so that there would be no idea ...
— Captain Jim • Mary Grant Bruce
... to think about, for he had seen a young man about twenty-two years of age giving himself, his labor, his money, and his best thought to help a poor family; to heal them of their sicknesses, to help them to become self-supporting and independent, by furnishing them work, and, above, all, to lift them to a higher plane of life, thus helping them to find within, the "kingdom of Heaven." Yes, he thought of Penloe's age, it was twenty-two; the very age when most young ...
— A California Girl • Edward Eldridge
... are self-supporting in so far as procuring the actual necessities of food and shelter, make them capable of retaining a hope for emancipation from ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams
... ever is to cultivate profitable and self-supporting fields and sound business policies. But the case of thousands upon thousands of boys living in localities that are socially impoverished, unfortunate, and debasing constitutes a call to the missionary spirit and method. If the ...
— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben
... really no university in which more ample provision had been made by founders and benefactors than at Oxford, for the support and encouragement of a class of students who should follow up new lines of study, devote their energies to work which, from its very nature, could not be lucrative or even self-supporting, and maintain the fame of English learning, English industry, and English genius in that great and time-honoured republic of learning which claims the allegiance of the whole of Europe, nay, of the whole civilized ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
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