Rare Earth Metals

Famous quotes containing the words rare, earth and/or metals:

    “It is a rare life that remains well-ordered even in private.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Fit gravefellows you are for Lincoln, Brown
    And Douglass and Toussaint. . . all whose rapt eyes
    Fashioned a new world in this wilderness.
    American earth is richer for your bones;
    Our hearts beat prouder for the blood we inherit.”
    —Dudley Randall (b. 1914)

    “As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one’s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)