Knocking

Famous quotes containing the word knocking:

“You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“But I died yesterday,
“Daddy,” I died,
swallowing the Nazi-Jap-animal
and it won’t get out
it keeps knocking at my eyes,
my big orphan eyes....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)