Famous quotes containing the words hour and/or long:
“For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars “Well,” he would say, “if we blow ourselves up, there’s plenty more where we came from!””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Now you rise,
a city from the sea,
born long before Alexandria was,
straightway from God you have come
into your redeeming skin.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)