Life Sentence

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or sentence:

“Have a care over my people. You have my people—do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them—see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)