Attention Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what…

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when…

— Henry David Thoreau

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

— Frank Dane

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

— Ted Hughes

If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that…

— Terence McKenna

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…

— Alan Watts

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

— Fernand Braudel

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust…

— Eric Clapton

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,…

— Luther Standing Bear

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one…

— Thomas P. Campbell