Famous quotes containing the words hour and/or hold:
“Be it so, for I submit; his doom is fair,
That dust I am and shall to dust return.
O welcome hour whenever! Why delays
His hand to execute what his decree
Fixed on this day? Why do I overlive?
Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out
To deathless pain? How gladly would I meet
Mortality, my sentence, and be earth
Insensible! how glad would lay me down
As in my mother’s lap!”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)