Single Conductor Layer

Famous quotes containing the words single, conductor and/or layer:

    The embers glowing in his bosom could set the world on fire, but they cannot warm the heart of a single human being.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
    Harriet Tubman (1821–1913)

    The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
    Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)