Famous quotes containing the word vigorous:
“He should be as vigorous as a sugar maple, with sap enough to maintain his own verdure,... and not like a vine, which being cut in the spring bears no fruit, but bleeds to death in the endeavor to heal its wounds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“... one of art photographys most vigorous enterprises[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunatebut without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)