Hub Shell

Famous quotes containing the words hub and/or shell:

“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel’d universe.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)