Long Falling

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or falling:

“Every sentence is the result of a long probation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)