Famous quotes containing the words stars and/or kill:
“Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)