Small Submerged Reef

Famous quotes containing the words small, submerged and/or reef:

“You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

“... we’re not out to benefit society, to remold existence, to make industry safe for anyone except ourselves, to give any small peoples except ourselves their rights. We’re not out for submerged tenths, we’re not going to suffer over how the other half lives. We’re out for Mary’s job and Luella’s art, and Barbara’s independence and the rest of our individual careers and desires.”
—Anne O’Hagan (1869–?)

“Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)