Opening

Famous quotes containing the word opening:

    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.

    Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)