 | American literature - 1904 - 704 pages
...somewhere else, if you ran very fast for a long time." "Slow sort of a country," said the Red Queen. "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." A conscientious reviewer of current fiction must needs appreciate the strenuousness of the... | |
 | George Hodges - Happiness - 1906 - 108 pages
...very fast for a long time, as we Ve been doing.' " ' A slow sort of country,' said the Queen. f Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.' " It would make a good inscription for the title-page of Baedeker's United States. Brothers... | |
 | Greville Macdonald - Child development - 1910 - 390 pages
...precise spot where they started. " Oh," said the Queen in answer to the child's surprise, " it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere, you must run at least twice as fast as that ! " One is tempted to spoil the fun of it and declare that... | |
 | Herbert Wescott Fisher - Hygiene - 1910 - 362 pages
...ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' "'A slow sort of country!' said the queen. 'Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.'" So, with us. Outside the fine arts, all the activities of life may be divided into two parts:... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 832 pages
...mature mind more openly suggestive of philosophy and satire. In the Red Queen's topsyturvey remark, "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," children see only admirable fooling, while their elders perceive, besides, a keen paradox upon... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1927 - 1296 pages
...Hon. members will remember that in Through a Looking Gla.*s the queen is made to say to Alice: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." I am suggesting that if the government wants to maintain the same 449 Royal Assent place before... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1963
...have a long way to go. Our problem reminds me of lines from "Alice in Wonderland," "* * * it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to (get somewhere el* you must run at least twice as fast * * *." Our per pupil expenditures this year are $279 compared... | |
 | Child labor - 1922 - 558 pages
...ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." — From "Through The Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll. FROM PENNSYLVANIA "Announcing that business... | |
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Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. 
