Famous quotes containing the words root, glass and/or company:
“Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“When youre thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire oceanthats faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or twothats science.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)