Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; even after the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)