Tangible Items

Famous quotes containing the words tangible and/or items:

    It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)