High Tensile Strength

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or strength:

    “...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of “ourselves” may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.”
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

    “I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antæus. But why should I raise them? Only Heaven knows.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)