Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or people:
“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And
Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.
It is just that so often they live till their hair is white.
They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers. . . .”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)