Opening

Famous quotes containing the word opening:

    “The next work of Carlyle will be entitled “Bow-Wow,” and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: “There is no error in this Book.””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    “The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
    With all their lives and cares,
    Are carried downwards by thy flood,
    And lost in following years.

    Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
    Bears all its sons away;
    They fly forgotten, as a dream
    Dies at the opening day.”
    —Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

    “They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?””
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:32.

    The Emmaus story.