Feet Tall

Famous quotes containing the words feet and/or tall:

“The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)