Famous quotes containing the words high, speed and/or trains:
“But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high embowed roof,
With antic pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim, religious light.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“Wait, Kate! You skate at such a rate
You leave behind your skating mate.
Your splendid speed wont you abate?
Hes lagging far behind you, Kate.”
—David Daiches (b. 1912)
“Conventions, at the present moment, are really menaced. The most striking sign of this is that people are now making unconventionality a social virtue, instead of an unsocial vice. The switches have been opened, and the laden trains must take their chance of a destination.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (18791944)
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