Famous quotes containing the words root, glass and/or company:
“In dark places and dungeons the preachers words might perhaps strike root and grow, but not in broad daylight in any part of the world that I know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date,
But when in thee times furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“There is no such thing as the Queens English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)