Famous quotes containing the words mounting and/or mark:
““Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,
“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)