Wanted

Famous quotes containing the word wanted:

“I wanted him to fly, burst like a missile from your throat,
burst from the spidery-mother-web,
burst from Woman herself
where too many had laid out lights
that stuck to you and left a burn
that smarted into your middle age.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ‘wartime’ President.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)