Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“No mother is so wicked but she desires to have good children.”
—Italian Proverb.
“Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)