Famous quotes containing the words cat, stevens, early and/or life:
“The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Pitiless verse? A few words tuned
And tuned and tuned and tuned.
It is good.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Yet, haply, in some lull of life,
Some Truce of God which breaks its strife,
The worldling’s eyes shall gather dew,
Dreaming in throngful city ways
Of winter joys his boyhood knew;
And dear and early friends—the few”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)