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Daily our grandparents are moving out of our lives, taking with them, irreparably, the kind of information contained in this book. They are taking it, not because they want to, but because they think we don't care. And it isn't happening just in Appalachia. I think, for example, of numerous Indian reservations, Black cultures near the southern coasts, Ozark mountain communities, and a hundred others.

The big problem is, of course, that since these grandparents were primarily an oral civilization, information being passed through the generations by word of mouth and demonstration, little of it is written down. When they're gone, the magnificent hunting tales, the ghost stories that kept a thousand children sleepless, the intricate tricks of self-sufficiency acquired through years of trial and error, the eloquent and haunting stories of suffering and sharing and building and healing and planting and harvesting--all these go with them, and what a loss.

— The foxfire book by Eliot Wigginton, Inc. Foxfire Fund (Page 12 - 13)

The lack of information in this country on European politics, even as late as Armistice Day 1918, was astounding. The indifference to Europe and the world situation in general was noticeable everywhere.

— The Making of an Insurgent by Fiorello Laguardia, Morris R. Werner (Page 201)

During the conversation an amusing coincidence occurred--at least it seemed funny to me at the time. M. Bouillon was in the midst of quite an impassioned plea to me. "Our beloved Paris is being bombed," he said emotionally. At that moment we heard the terrific noise of a bomb falling. M. Bouillon went right on talking, merely adding in tones of an advocate emphasizing his evidence: "Voila!"

— The Making of an Insurgent by Fiorello Laguardia, Morris R. Werner (Page 194 - 195)