Sides

Famous quotes containing the word sides:

“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I see before me now a traveling army halting,
Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)