Long Rods

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or rods:

“Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto
the bitter in soul;
Which long for death,”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 20–21)

“At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)