Gaining

Famous quotes containing the word gaining:

    For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
    years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;
    Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    That all things change, one nation gaining strength
    While others perish.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    Remember stories you read when a boy
    The shipwrecked sailor gaining safety by
    His knife, treetrunk, and lianas for now
    You must escape, or perish saying no.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)