"Cling to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such peripatetics in these days of light and science, who still cling to the false and degrading systems of neutrality, because they are honorable for age, or sustained by learned and good men, and who will oppose all improvement, reject without examination, or, what is still worse, ...
— Lectures on Language - As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. • William S. Balch
... broken fence The moonbeams trail their shrouds; Their tattered cerements Cling to the gauzy clouds, In ribbons frayed and thin— And startled by the light Silence shrinks deeper in ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various
... John Calvin, to tear the habit while we are stripping off the superfluous decoration; and the example of this country will probably long act as a discouragement to all change, either judicial or political. The very name of France will repress the desire of innovation—we shall cling to abuses as though they were our support, and every attempt to remedy them will become an objection of suspicion and terror.—Such are the advantages which mankind will ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... afterwards modified by the use of a decimal system. The enlightened and progressive nations of the modern world who have followed the Romans in adopting a decimal system may perhaps approve Stolo's remarks, but it behooves those of us who still cling to the duodecimal system to defend Cato, if only to ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato
... wonder why we do cling to that old fetich of the East. Why can't we accept the fact that we are Western people? The question is, Shall we be the self-satisfied kind or the unsatisfied kind? Shall we be contented and limited, or ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
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