Famous quotes containing the words gills and/or settled:
“his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)