Famous quotes containing the words million, long and/or tons:
““M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old.”
—Howard Johnson (1887–1941)
“A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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