Deserted

Famous quotes containing the word deserted:

“The discovery of Pennsylvania’s coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize!
For the old egg of my desire is broken,”
—Unknown. Sonnet Found in a Deserted Madhouse (l. 1–2)

“It is the vice, but not the excellence of manners, that they are continually being deserted by the character; they are cast- off clothes or shells, claiming the respect which belonged to the living creature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)