crust quotes

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished earth.

- Charles Kuralt
  In Sunday Morning, CBS  T V, 23  Jan.

Shut close the door; press down the latch; Sleep in thy intellectual crust; Nor lose ten tickings of thy watch Near this unprofitable dust.

-William Wordsworth
  'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 9 (published1800).