Threatened

Famous quotes containing the word threatened:

“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“[He] didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)