Escaped

Famous quotes containing the word escaped:

“...I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:20.

“Mosquitoes, black flies, etc., pursued us in mid-channel, and we were glad sometimes to get into violent rapids, for then we escaped them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“an escaped note of
almost unbearable
satisfaction, a great
bough or beam
unaware it had
spoken.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)