Famous quotes containing the words day, time and/or trials:
“Old Day the gardener seemed
Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
by the sundial and freshly-dug
grave in my book of parables.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Benjamin: Do you think I’m proud of myself? Do you think I’m proud of this?
Mrs. Robinson: I wouldn’t know.
Benjamin: Well, I’m not.
Mrs. Robinson: You’re not?
Benjamin: No, sir. I’m not proud that I spend my time with a broken-down alcoholic.”
—Calder Willingham (1923–1995)
“... all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed, and the gloom connected with everything associated with the name of religion, the church, the parsonage, the graveyard, and the solemn, tolling bell.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)