Head Wounds Sustained

Famous quotes containing the words head, wounds and/or sustained:

“No head knows where its rest is
Or may lie down with reason
When war’s usurping claws
Shall take heart escheat....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“The sight of one of these frontier houses, built of these great logs, whose inhabitants have unflinchingly maintained their ground many summers and winters in the wilderness, reminds me of famous forts, like Ticonderoga or Crown Point, which have sustained memorable sieges.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)