Famous quotes containing the words rivet and/or stand:
“Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our fathers water’d with their tears
This sea of time whereon we sail,
Their voices were in all men’s ears
Who pass’d within their puissant hail.
Still the same ocean round us raves,
But we stand mute, and watch the waves.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)