Famous quotes containing the words cosmic and/or destruction:
“We made a silence, for teacups, once
After cosmic gall had bittered a lidless night....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”
—Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)