Front Rounded Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words front, rounded and/or vowels:

    “The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.”
    —Linda Goodman (b. 1929)

    “The rounded world is fair to see,
    Nine times folded in mystery.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)