Coming

Famous quotes containing the word coming:

    “When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert.
    O my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger,
    Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “When the night’s coming and the last light falls
    A weak child among lost shadows on the floor....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)