Famous quotes containing the word killed:
“Some ghosts are women,
neither abstract nor pale,
their breasts as limp as killed fish.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Although the stupid, unthinking world may approve what you have done, in your heart you know that, but for your treachery, the boy you loved would be alive today. If anyone is responsible for his death, you killed him, and for that murder you will live and die in the contempt and loathing of your own heart.”
—Karl Brown (18971990)
“Im right here to tell you, mister. There aint nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. My pa was born here. We was all born on it. And some of us was killed on it. And some of us died on it. Thats what makes it ourn. Bein born on it. And workin on it. And dyin on it. And not no piece of paper with writin on it.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)