Famous quotes containing the words iron gates, iron and/or gates:
“Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball:
And tear our pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
—Andrew Marvell (16211678)
“Toms great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped faceas if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; & thought.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“We set this nation up ... to vindicate the rights of man. We did not name any differences between one race and another. We opened our gates to all the world and said: Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
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