Moves Downward

Famous quotes containing the words moves and/or downward:

“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscription of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)