Famous quotes containing the words common, long and/or haul:
“I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits,
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... never, walking away
As light fails, to notice the first star
Pulsing alone in a long shell-coloured sky....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The brawniest will not beat back the storm
Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)