Single Line

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or line:

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.