Empty Element

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or element:

“With empty hands we come; empty handed we go.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)