Hearing Nerve

Famous quotes containing the words hearing and/or nerve:

“I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)