Died

Famous quotes containing the word died:

“You’ve got a job to do. You’ve gotta sing on Smith.... You’ve gotta finish the job for Tolly! Or he died for nothing!”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)

“Cotton Mather died when I was a boy. The books
He read, all day, all night and all the nights,
Had got him nowhere. There was always the doubt,
That made him preach the louder, long for a church
In which his voice would roll its cadences,
After the sermon, to quiet that mouse in the wall.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)