Famous quotes containing the words chain, bridge and/or road:
“Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumbers chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me.”
—Thomas Moore (17791852)
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, its intimate and psychologicalresistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“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)