Longs

Famous quotes containing the word longs:

“No one longs to live more than someone growing old.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Everybody who’s anybody longs to be a tree—”
—Rita Dove (b. 1952)

“A Mother’s hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.”
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)