Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”
—Betty Friedan (20th century)