Brittle Materials

Famous quotes containing the words brittle and/or materials:

“Weed, moss-weed,
root tangled in sand,
sea-iris, brittle flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)