Signal Fair Catch

Famous quotes containing the words signal, fair and/or catch:

    Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    “He neither shall be christened
    In white wine or red,
    But with fair spring water,
    With which we were christenèd.”
    —Unknown. As Joseph Was a-Walking (l. 17–20)

    Vain the ambition of kings
    Who seek by trophies and dead things,
    To leave a living name behind,
    And weave but nets to catch the wind.
    John Webster (1580–1625)