Choose Correct Statement

Famous quotes containing the words choose, correct and/or statement:

    “But I’ve heard mankind abuse thee;
    And perhaps it’s rather strange,
    But I thought that I would choose thee
    For encomium, as a change.”
    —Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884)

    “In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “After the first powerful plain manifesto
    The black statement of pistons, without more fuss
    But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)