Famous quotes containing the words state, rest and/or day:
“To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My father’s ashes are not yet interred. ... strangely, I find the fact that he isn’t properly laid to rest helps me when I’m doing this play.”
—Lynn Redgrave (b. 1943)
“The first day on the new world had begun.”
—Sydney Boehm (1908–1990)