Fast Days

Famous quotes containing the words fast and/or days:

    Who liveth by the ragged pine
    Foundeth a heroic line;
    Who liveth in the palace hall
    Waneth fast and spendeth all.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman’s movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)