Quotes about Current

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

The public hero is sensitive to the needs of his time.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.