Leap

Famous quotes containing the word leap:

“Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“I—love’s skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb—
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother’s womb.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Many a time I have seen my mother leap up from the dinner table to engage the swarming flies with an improvised punkah, and heard her rejoice and give humble thanks simultaneously that Baltimore was not the sinkhole that Washington was.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)