Sat/structure

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or structure:

    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept: when we remembered Zion.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 137:1.

    A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)