Famous quotes containing the words light and/or seconds:
“Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies:
Yet, Cole! thy heart shall bear to Europes strand
A living image of our own bright land,
Such as upon thy glorious canvas lies;”
—William Cullen Bryant (17941878)
“... you can have a couple of seconds to rest in. I mean seconds. You have about two seconds to wait while the blanker is on the felt drawing the moisture out. You can stand and relax those two secondsthree seconds at most. You wish you didnt have to work in a factory. When its all you know what to do, thats what you do.”
—Grace Clements, U.S. factory worker. As quoted in Working, book 5, by Studs Terkel (1973)
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