Famous quotes containing the words bright and/or road:
“Ah! I have penetrated to those meadows on the morning of many a first spring day, jumping from hummock to hummock, from willow root to willow root, when the wild river valley and the woods were bathed in so pure and bright a light as would have waked the dead, if they had been slumbering in their graves, as some suppose. There needs no stronger proof of immortality. All things must live in such a light. O Death, where was thy sting? O Grave, where was thy victory, then?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and aloneGOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wise and religiousbut let me be MAN: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to theegive me some companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our shadows lengthen as the sun goes down.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)