Touching

Famous quotes containing the word touching:

    “An accurate charting of the American woman’s progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time—but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.”
    —Susan Faludi (20th century)

    “I farm a pasture where the boulders lie
    As touching as a basketful of eggs....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)