Lasting

Famous quotes containing the word lasting:

    “One of those sound slumbers which, lasting in reality some half hour, seem to the sleeper to have been protracted for three weeks or a month.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “God guard me from those thoughts men think
    In the mind alone;
    He that sings a lasting song
    Thinks in a marrow-bone....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)