Famous quotes containing the words left, field and/or wall:
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one’s self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man’s slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
—Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)
“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 10:8.