Famous quotes containing the words fired, plant and/or capable:
“Cursed be the hand that fired the shot,
The frenzied brain that hatched the plot,
Thy country’s Father slain
By thee, thou worse than Cain!”
—Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)
“I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)