Numbers

Famous quotes containing the word numbers:

“Green grow the rushes-O
What is your one-O?”
—Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 2–3)

“And when all bodies meet
In Lethe to be drowned,
Then only numbers sweet
With endless life are crowned.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)