Famous quotes containing the word creeping:
“The whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Yes, madam, Nature is creeping up.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (18341903)
“The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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