Famous quotes containing the words lone, rock and/or working:
“Poor is the triumph oer the timid hare!
Scared from the corn, and now to some lone seat
Retired”
—James Thomson (17001748)
“When the rock was hid by the surges swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell,
And then they knew the perilous rock,
And blessd the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”
—Robert Southey (17741843)
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)