Famous quotes containing the words lay and/or grades:
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)
“He suggested that there might be men of genius in the lowest grades of life, however permanently humble and illiterate, who take their own view always, or do not pretend to see at all; who are as bottomless even as Walden Pond was thought to be, though they may be dark and muddy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)