Famous quotes containing the words water and/or towers:
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep;
Her march is oer the mountain-waves,
Her home is on the deep.”
—Thomas Campbell (17741844)