Weight
- pund – pound, from 1683 the weight of 1/62 fot³ of water, 499.75 g (1.1 lb)
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Famous quotes containing the word weight:
“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“as his weight wilts
and he is on a porch
that wont hold my arms,
or the legs of the race run
forwards, or the film
played backwards on his grandsons eyes.”
—Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)