Famous quotes containing the word impediment:
“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word “stammer.” I can’t say it myself.”
—Patrick Campbell (1913–1980)