Famous quotes containing the words gossamer and/or appeared:
“I am as unfit for any practical purposeI mean for the furtherance of the worlds endsas gossamer for ship-timber; and I, who am going to be a pencil-maker to-morrow, can sympathize with God Apollo, who served King Admetus for a while on earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A black sun has appeared in the sky of my motherland.”
—Wuer Kaixi, Chinese student leader. Quoted in Independent (London, June 29, 1989)