Famous quotes containing the words fire, suppression and/or team:
“The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, “This is God’s hat.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.
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