Precede

Famous quotes containing the word precede:

“Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“It was the pine alone, chiefly the white pine, that had tempted any but the hunter to precede us on this route.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It was as lovely a summer as those that precede wars.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)