Separate Words

Famous quotes containing the words separate and/or words:

    “You shall hang the curtain under the clasps, and bring the ark of the covenant in there, within the curtain; and the curtain shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 26:33.

    “For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)