Wash

Famous quotes containing the word wash:

    As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
    As I wended the shores I know,
    As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    Papa died in the gas chamber,
    slipping blue as an undressed minnow,
    gulping in the shower to wash the Jew off him.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)