Famous quotes containing the words range, land and/or attack:
“[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)