Long March Rocket

Famous quotes containing the words long, march and/or rocket:

    “An aspiring genius was D. Green:
    The son of a farmer, age fourteen;
    His body was long and lank and lean—
    Just right for flying, as will be seen;”
    —John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)

    “Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.”
    —Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

    “Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
    Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow.”
    —Andrei Voznesensky (b. 1933)