Tenth Day

Famous quotes containing the words tenth day, tenth and/or day:

    “The tenth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Ten pipers piping,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 64–66)

    “In his tenth July some instinct
    taught him to arm the waiting wave,
    a giant where its mouth hung open.
    He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
    and buckled him under.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)