Famous quotes containing the words authority and/or figure:
“The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizens’ skin.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)