Bacon Spent

Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or spent:

    As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper—just running down the edges of different countries and continents, “looking for something” ... having spent most of my life timorously seeking for subsistence along the coastlines of the world.
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)