Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“It takes ten years to grow good trees, but a hundred years to grow good people.”
—Chinese proverb.

“My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeing a Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time’s fool,
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)