Famous quotes containing the words beecher, metropolitan and/or water:
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“it
was my first doll that water went
into and water came out of much
earlier it was the diaper I wore
and the dirt thereof and my
mother hating me for it”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)