Famous quotes containing the word promised:
“That poor little thing was a good woman, Judge. But she just sort of let life get the upper hand. She was born here and she wanted to be buried here. I promised her on her deathbed shed have a funeral in a church with flowers. And the sun streamin through a pretty window on her coffin. And a hearse with plumes and some hacks. And a preacher to read the Bible. And folks there in church to pray for her soul.”
—Laurence Stallings (18041968)
“So, Willy, let you and me be wipers
Of scores out with all menespecially pipers;
And, whether they pipe us free, from rats or from mice,
If weve promised them aught, let us keep our promise.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmers profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a mans home, could suggest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)