Famous quotes containing the words washington and/or terrace:
“A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first mannot the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truthis next to the Divinity!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“A tree that can fill the span of a mans arms
Grows from a downy tip;
A terrace nine stories high
Rises from hodfuls of earth;
A journey of a thousand miles
Starts from beneath ones feet.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)