Thunderstorm Activity

Famous quotes containing the words thunderstorm and/or activity:

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I see advertisements for active young men, as if activity were the whole of a young man’s capital. Yet I have been surprised when one has with confidence proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise of his, as if I had absolutely nothing to do, my life having been a complete failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment this to pay me!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)