Famous quotes containing the words prey and/or items:
“Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings,”
—Isaac Watts (16741748)
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)