Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“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)

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“Slowly he entered dark and silence and lay there for so long that with what judgement remained he judged them to be final.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)