Famous quotes containing the words slow, wave and/or sleep:
“The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)