Drilling Wood

Famous quotes containing the words drilling and/or wood:

    “Don’t spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)