Stand Firm

Famous quotes containing the words stand firm, stand and/or firm:

“I hope to “stand firm” enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“I would stand upon facts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A book is like a man—clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)