Starting Values

Famous quotes containing the words starting and/or values:

    “And down in fathoms many went the captain and the crew;
    Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain
    allured:
    Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “When the shingles hissed
    in the rain incendiary,
    other values were revealed to us,”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)