Empty

Famous quotes containing the word empty:

“Hast ever ben in Omaha
Where rolls the dark Missouri down,
Where four strong horses scarce can draw
An empty wagon through the town?
Where sand is blown from every mound
To fill your eyes and ears and throat;
Where all the steamboats are aground,
And all the houses are afloat?...
If not, take heed to what I say,
You’ll find it just as I have found it;
And if it lies upon your way
For God’s sake, reader, go around it!”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“The empty woman took toys!
In her sisters’ homes
Were little girls and boys.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)