Long Count Dates

Famous quotes containing the words long, count and/or dates:

“The summer that I was ten—
Can it be there was only one
summer that I was ten? It must

have been a long one then—”
—May Swenson (1919–1995)

“I count those feathered balls of soot
The moor-hen guides upon the stream,
To silence the envy in my thought;
And turn towards my chamber, caught
In the cold snows of a dream.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)