Famous quotes containing the words falling and/or tone:
“It comes in, falling to its knees
but we can’t translate the language.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)