Famous quotes containing the words fathom, prelude and/or beginnings:
“O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know
how many fathom deep I am in love!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I got a little secretarial job after college, but I thought of it as a prelude. Education, work, whatever you did before marriage, was only a prelude to your real life, which was marriage.”
—Bonnie Carr (c. early 1930s)
“These beginnings of commerce on a lake in the wilderness are very interesting,—these larger white birds that come to keep company with the gulls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)