Famous quotes containing the words rivet and/or stand:
“Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I stand amid the dust o the mounded years
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
—Francis Thompson (18591907)