Forty Days

Famous quotes containing the words forty days, forty and/or days:

    “For forty days, for forty nights
    Jesus put one foot in front of the other
    and the man he carried,
    if it was a man,
    became heavier and heavier.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “When Paul Bunyan’s loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space before discovering they had passed the last rafter.”
    —State of Oregon, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
    A box where sweets compacted lie;
    My music shows ye have your closes,
    And all must die.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)