Famous quotes containing the word reaches:
“Colonel, never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”
—Calvin Coolidge (18721933)
“O father! O father! now, now, keep your hold,
The Erl-King has seized mehis grasp is so cold!
Sore trembled the father; he spurrd thro the wild,
Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child;
He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread,
But, claspd to his bosom, the infant was dead.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17991832)
“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)