Famous quotes containing the word fierce:
“Rabbits that turn are as fierce as tigers.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When the fierce north-western blast
Cools sea and land so far and fast,
Thou already slumberest deep;
Woe and want thou canst outsleep;
Want and woe, which torture us,
Thy sleep makes ridiculous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... and fierce in each disk
of coarse yellow the archaic
smile, almost
agony, almost
a boy’s grin.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)