Grind Mountain Run

Famous quotes containing the words grind, mountain and/or run:

“Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“These are God’s own horses, poor, timid creatures, that will run fast enough as soon as they smell you, though they are nine feet high.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)