Turn

Famous quotes containing the word turn:

“Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we—the white race—have become the yellow man’s burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“You know I won’t turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.”
—William Hogarth (1697–1764)

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)