Famous quotes containing the words state and/or lines:
“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“His more memorable passages are as naturally bright as gleams of sunshine in misty weather. Nature furnishes him not only with words, but with stereotyped lines and sentences from her mint.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)