Famous quotes containing the words close and/or vowels:
“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)