Opening Shot

Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or shot:

“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.

“He shakes the dust from off his feet
And shambles down the dirty street
The last man in the town, they said,
Who’d shot a hundred Yankees dead.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)