Famous quotes containing the words bearer, channel and/or rate:
“The bearer of evil tidings,
When he was halfway there,
Remembered that evil tidings
Were a dangerous thing to bear.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
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