Famous quotes containing the word eyes:
“Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya?
Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, ain’t got no eyes he can’t enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“On fields all drenched with blood he made his record in war, abstained from lawless violence when left on the plantation, and received his freedom in peace with moderation. But he holds in this Republic the position of an alien race among a people impatient of a rival. And in the eyes of some it seems that no valor redeems him, no social advancement nor individual development wipes off the ban which clings to him.”
—Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
“O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence;
That instant was I turned into a hart,
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E’er since pursue me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)