Present Passive

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or passive:

    America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
    Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865–1923)

    She has taken her passive pigeon poor,
    She has buried him down and down.
    He never shall sally to Sally
    Nor soil any roofs of the town.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)