Famous quotes containing the words gave and/or birth:
“When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)