Wire Earth Return

Famous quotes containing the words wire, earth and/or return:

    “Constantly risking absurdity
    and death
    whenever he performs
    above the heads
    of his audience
    the poet like an acrobat
    climbs on rime
    to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

    “Let us hope ... that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)