Eighth Day

Famous quotes containing the words eighth day, eighth and/or day:

    “If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Philippians 3:4-6.

    “The eighth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Eight maids a-milking,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 43–45)

    “I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and to hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)