Famous quotes containing the words higher, mother and/or tongue:
“The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“Now that you are eighteen
I give you my booty, my spoils,
my Mother & Co. and my ailments.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn’d over
upon me,
And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my
feet.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)