Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:
“T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it comes a Latin grammar,and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“And catch the gleaming of a random light,
That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906)
“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of actionthe ability to pass directly from thought to action.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)