Labor Day Hurricane

Famous quotes containing the words labor, day and/or hurricane:

“A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind, are the poets, who, from the intellectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money, and console them for the short-comings of the day, and the meanness of labor and traffic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)