Famous quotes containing the words ravens and/or wood:
“I dont think I shall ever like that Mr. Slope, said Mr. Harding.
Like him! roared the archdeacon, standing still for a moment to give more force to his voice; like him! All the ravens of the close cawed their assent.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke will be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholars pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)