Ground Glass Joints

Famous quotes containing the words ground, glass and/or joints:

    “As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Before the beginning of years
    There came to the making of man
    Time, with a gift of tears;
    Grief, with a glass that ran;”
    —A.C. (Algernon Charles)

    “To round that shell’s elaborate whorl,
    Adorning every secret track
    With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
    Made the joints of Heaven crack....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)