Solid Support

Famous quotes containing the words solid and/or support:

“Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)