Pace

Famous quotes containing the word pace:

    Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which hears, however measured or far away.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Every milestone of a firstborn is scrutinized, photographed, recorded, replayed, and retold by doting parents to admiring relatives and disinterested friends. . . . While subsequent children will strive to keep pace with siblings a few years their senior, the firstborn will always have a seemingly Herculean task of emulating his adult parents.
    Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)

    She wants to
    throw the tribute away, dis-
    gusted, and can’t,
    it goes on buzzing in her ear,
    it changes the pace of her walk....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)