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)

    “‘I’m sorry that I spelt the word:
    I hate to go above you,
    Because’Mthe brown eyes lower fell—
    ‘Because, you see, I love you!’

    Still memory to a grey-haired man
    That sweet child-face is showing.
    Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
    Have forty years been growing.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “Ruskin’s counsel: The labour of two days ... is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?
    Whistler: No: I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”
    —James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)