Famous quotes containing the words thread, drive and/or side:
“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.”
—John Gregory Brown (20th century)
“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“I dare take the side of humanity against this sublime misanthrope.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)