Famous quotes containing the words ground, stone and/or tools:
“Having interrd her Infant-birth,
The watry ground that late did mourn,
Was strewd with flowrs for the return
Of the wishd Bridegroom of the earth.”
—Edward Herbert (15831648)
“You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.”
—James Weldon Johnson (18711938)
“No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will:
And blessèd are the horny hands of toil!”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)