Words Long

Famous quotes containing the words words and/or long:

    All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Too long a sacrifice
    Can make a stone of the heart.
    O when may it suffice?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)