Famous quotes containing the words takes and/or part:
“It takes ten years to grow good trees, but a hundred years to grow good people.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)