Bottom Dead Center

Famous quotes containing the words bottom, dead and/or center:

    “There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
    Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
    O that that earth which kept the world in awe
    Should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Children can’t be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can’t be a wellspring to live from. Or they shouldn’t be.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)