Famous quotes containing the words sand and/or spit:
“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“It is an old saying in the town that most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney of a neighbors house.”
—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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