Lightning Strike

Famous quotes containing the words lightning and/or strike:

“The Lightning showed a Yellow Beak
And then a livid Claw.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,—for the root is faith,—I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)