Gathers

Famous quotes containing the word gathers:

“Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise. Without having any chief or officer or ruler, it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:6-8.

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“He gathers deeds
In the pure air, the agent
Of their factual excesses.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)