Rocking Chairs

Famous quotes containing the words rocking and/or chairs:

“Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven’t fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)