Famous quotes containing the words witness and/or stand:
“Composed in the Tower before his execution
These moving verses, and being brought at that time
Painfully to the stake, submitted, declaring thus:
“I implore my God to witness that I have made no crime.””
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
“Them Oakies got no sense and no feeling. They ain’t human. No human being wouldn’t live the way they do. A human being couldn’t stand it to be so miserable.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)