Needle Receiving Tubes

Famous quotes containing the words needle and/or receiving:

“Think how stood the white pine tree on the shore of the Chesuncook, its branches soughing with the four winds, and every individual needle trembling in the sunlight,—think how it stands with it now,—sold, perchance, to the New England Friction-Match Company!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)