Famous quotes containing the words knees and/or contracted:
“An absolute
patience.
Trees stand
up to their knees in
fog.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)