Leap Year Starting

Famous quotes containing the words leap, year and/or starting:

    “Our enemies have beat us to the pit.
    It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
    Than tarry till they push us.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.”
    —Elizabeth II (b. 1926)

    “A hook shot kisses the rim and
    hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop

    and for once our gangly starting center
    boxes out his man and times his jump

    perfectly, gathering the orange leather
    from the air like a cherished possession”
    —Edward Hirsch (b. 1950)