Provide Air Base

Famous quotes containing the words provide, air and/or base:

    “Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.”
    —Susan Lieberman (20th century)

    “Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame,
    False to my passion, fatal to my fame,
    Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove
    So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?”
    —John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)