Slow Sand Filters

Famous quotes containing the words slow, sand and/or filters:

    We should be slow to mend, my friends, as slow to require mending.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore...
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 4:29.

    Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)