Slow

Famous quotes containing the word slow:

    They are tireless folk, but slow and sad
    Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad
    With none among them that ever sings....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I believe there were no flowers then,
    In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
    I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
    William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)