Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:
“Down
The long shadows where undriven the dawn
Hunts light into nobility, arouse us noble.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)