Famous quotes containing the words step and/or left:
“I had not taken the first step in knowledge;
I had not learned to let go with the hands,
As still I have not learned to with the heart....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Wild as it was, it was hard for me to get rid of the associations of the settlements. Any steady and monotonous sound, to which I did not distinctly attend, passed for a sound of human industry.... Our minds anywhere, when left to themselves, are always thus busily drawing conclusions from false premises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)