Shut

Famous quotes containing the word shut:

“Ribald romeos less and less berattle
your shut window with impulsive pebbles.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We cannot permit the extreme in the environmental movement to shut down the United States. We cannot shut down the lives of many Americans by going to the extreme on the environment.”
—George Bush (b. 1924)