Famous quotes containing the words big, water and/or creature:
“There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needsapart from discernmenta certain greatness to find him.”
—Margot Asquith (18641945)
“the main jet
Struggling aloft unti it seems at rest
In the act of rising, until
The very wish of water is reversed,”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)