Numerous

Famous quotes containing the word numerous:

    Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 7:6,7.

    The note of the white-throated sparrow, a very inspiriting but almost wiry sound, was first heard in the morning, and with this all the woods rang. This was the prevailing bird in the northern part of Maine. The forest generally was alive with them at this season, and they were proportionally numerous and musical about Bangor. They evidently breed in that State.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)