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)

“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“still I’m ready to believe perhaps
some lives
tremble and flare up there, four blocks away ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)