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)