horizon quotes

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

- Emily Carr
Klee Wyck, ch.17,'Salt  Water'.

One of the strongest motives that lead people to give their lives to art and science is the urge to flee from everyday life, with its drab and deadly dullness and thus to unshackle the chains of one's own transient desires, which supplant one another in an interminable succession so long as the mind is fixed on the horizon of daily environment.

- Albert Einstein
  Prologue to Max Planck Where is Science Going? (1933).

The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here todayin next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumpedalways somebody else's horizon!

- Kenneth Grahame
   Toad rhapsodizes about the motor car. The Wind in the Willows, ch.2.

Four spectres haunt the poorold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.

- David, 1st Earl Lloyd George (of Dwyfor)
  Speech, Reading,1  Jan.

Only in a higher phase of communist society†can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety, and society inscribe on its banners,'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!' See Bakunin 53:25.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  Critique of the Gotha Programme, May.

The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.

-Time
  Of Winston Churchill disembarking from the Queen Mary. 14 Jan.

'We were the colour of shadows when we came down with tinkling leg-irons to join the chains of the sea, for the silver coins multiplying on the sold horizon.'

- Derek Alton Walcott
  Omeros, bk.3, ch.28, section1.