Famous quotes containing the word put:
“You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.”
—Edward T. Lowe. Erle C. Kenton. Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens)
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)