Action Rod Bends

Famous quotes containing the words action, rod and/or bends:

    “A servant with this clause
    Makes drudgery divine:
    Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
    Makes that and th’ action fine.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 23:4.

    “Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
    One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep,
    Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze
    That whirls the ‘wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)