Excited Atom

Famous quotes containing the words excited and/or atom:

“I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Thank God! none of my children have an atom of poetry in their composition!”
—Augusta Leigh (1783–1851)