Daddy Long Legs

Famous quotes containing the words daddy, long and/or legs:

    “I held my breath
    and daddy was there,
    his thumbs, his fat skull,
    his teeth, his hair growing
    like a field or a shawl.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus’s spear: if one end kills, the other cures.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “By the roadside a hideous carrion, quivering
    On a clean bed of pebbly clay,
    Her legs flexed in the air like a courtesan,
    Burning and sweating venomously,
    Calmly exposed its belly, ironic and wan,
    Clamorous with foul ecstasy.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)