Absorption Lines

Famous quotes containing the words absorption and/or lines:

    “The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
    Through the vest which seems to hide them;
    As the radiant lines of morning
    Through the clouds ere they divide them;
    And this atmosphere divinest
    Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)