Famous quotes containing the word died:
“I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! Ill defy them to do it. They have nt got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“He werent no saintbut at Jedgment
Id run my chance with Jim,
Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldnt shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,
And went for it, thar an then:
And Christ aint a-goin to be too hard
On a man that died for me.”
—John Milton Hay (18381905)
“These, and such as these, must be our antiquities, for lack of human vestiges. The monuments of heroes and the temples of the gods which may once have stood on the banks of this river are now, at any rate, returned to dust and primitive soil. The murmur of unchronicled nations has died away along these shores, and once more Lowell and Manchester are on the trail of the Indian.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)