Steel Plates

Famous quotes containing the words steel and/or plates:

    There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It’s as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
    Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler’s Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,—
    “Can such things be,
    And overcome us like a summer’s cloud?”
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)