Dead

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

“The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“To girls and wives always alive and fated;
To men and scholars always dead like Greek
And always mistranslated.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea,”
—Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)