Chain Lift Hill

Famous quotes containing the words chain, lift and/or hill:

“To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)