Greater

Famous quotes containing the word greater:

    “Are we no greater than the noise we make
    Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
    Whereon by crass chance billeted we go
    Because our brains and bones and cartilage
    Will have it so?”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.”
    —Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)

    “The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son of earth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)