Famous quotes containing the words page, fence and/or giants:
“Envy has blackened every page of his history.... The future, in its justice, will number him among those men whom passions and an excess of activity have condemned to unhappiness, through the gift of genius.”
—Eugène Delacroix (17981863)
“You know Orion always comes up sideways.
Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,
And rising on his hands....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”
—Omar Bradley (18931981)