Crossed

Famous quotes containing the word crossed:

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“my eyes filled up like an owl,
and my legs crossed themselves like Christ’s.
He was a stranger, Father.
Oh God,
he was a stranger,
was he not?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Did you ever hear tell of Sweet Betsy from Pike.
Who crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,”
—Unknown. Sweet Betsey from Pike (l. 1–2)