Famous quotes containing the words high, speed and/or thrill:
“The Forefathers dayPilgrim day. We are at the same high call here todayfreedom, freedom for all. We all know that is the essence of this contest.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (18211867)
“Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of natureif the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill youknow that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)