Famous quotes containing the word plank:
“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)
“I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)