Shut Door

Famous quotes containing the words shut and/or door:

“As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation. Standing at my door, I could hear the rush of their wings; when, driving toward my house, they suddenly spied my light, and with hushed clamor wheeled and settled in the pond. So I came in, and shut the door, and passed my first spring night in the woods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)