Prison Fourteen Years

Famous quotes containing the words fourteen years, prison, fourteen and/or years:

    Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
    Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
    I’m fourteen years old, that is the reason,
    I giggle and dote in season.
    Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

    each prison crypt,
    of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
    Surviving in a world of stocks,—
    Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
    For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
    For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
    For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
    For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
    For the next a bier to fetch them away.
    Thomas Tusser (c. 1520–1580)

    America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn’t solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it’s still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?
    Golda Meir (1898–1978)