Famous quotes containing the words thin, facing and/or layer:
“sullen fun
Savage as childhoods thin harmonious tear:
O fountain, bosom source undying-dead
Replenish me the spring of love and fear”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods?”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859)
“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But wewere just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)