Saints Began

Famous quotes containing the words saints and/or began:

    “The Saints come,
    as human as a mouth,
    with a bag of God in their backs,
    like a hunchback,
    they come,
    they come marching in.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The captain was a duck
    With a packet on his back,
    And when the ship began to move
    The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)