Famous quotes containing the words left and/or measure:
“My long hair was tucked up under a cap
I’d left the earring in the car.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)