Tremble

Famous quotes containing the word tremble:

    The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
    Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

    I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    One day beside some flowers near his nose
    He will be thinking, When will I look at it?
    And pain, still in the middle distance, will reply,
    At what? and he will know it’s gone,
    O where! and begin to tremble and cry.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)