Precede

Famous quotes containing the word precede:

“It was as lovely a summer as those that precede wars.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“It was the pine alone, chiefly the white pine, that had tempted any but the hunter to precede us on this route.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)