Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“Breaking free from the delicious security of mother love can be a painful rupture for either mother or son. Some boys can’t do it. Some mothers can’t let it happen because they know the boy is not ready to leave her; others are simply not ready to give up their sons.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)

“I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)