Famous quotes containing the words land, force and/or command:
“The land was our before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesnt prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C)
“The Modernists command was Pounds Make it New. The postmodern imperative is Get it Used. The more used the better.”
—Andrei Codrescu (b. 1946)
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