Famous quotes containing the words territory, received and/or present:
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
“My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselvesin full bloom or as they fade away.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
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