Famous quotes containing the words rare and/or earth:
“She could not love me
Were man as rare as phoenix.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)