Hearing People

Famous quotes containing the words hearing and/or people:

    When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then, indeed, the cars go by without his hearing them. But soon, by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one’s hand.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)