Coming

Famous quotes containing the word coming:

    “Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keep on digging. Most people don’t. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can’t stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.”
    —Hal Borland (1900–1978)

    “The distance that the dead have gone
    Does not at first appear—
    Their coming back seems possible
    For many an ardent year.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “But at the coming of the King of Heaven
    All’s set at six and seven:
    We wallow in our sin;
    Christ cannot finde a chamber in the inn.”
    —Unknown. Yet if His Majesty, Our Sovereign Lord (l. 25–28)