Famous quotes containing the words palm and/or springs:
“When John Henry was a little fellow,
You could hold him in the palm of your hand,
He said to his pa, When I grow up
Im gonna be a steel-driving man.
Gonna be a steel-driving man.”
—Unknown. John Henry (l. 15)
“In short, as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)