Famous quotes containing the words left and/or measure:
“My only companions were the mice, which came to pick up the crumbs that had been left in those scraps of paper; still, as everywhere, pensioners on man, and not unwisely improving this elevated tract for their habitation. They nibbled what was for them; I nibbled what was for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I dont measure America by its achievement, but by its potential.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)