Famous quotes containing the words long and/or chain:
“Artthe one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chainuntil the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
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