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?
Im fourteen years old, that is the reason,
I giggle and dote in season.”
—Stevie Smith (19021971)
“each prison crypt,
of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
Surviving in a world of stocks,”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“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. 15201580)
“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and its tragic that the problem of the blacks wasnt solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but its 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 (18981978)