Famous quotes containing the word late:
“Lancaster bore him such a little town,
Such a great man. It doesnt see him often
Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead
And sends the children down there with their mother
To run wild in the summer a little wild.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“But this was the old trees late branch wrenched away,
Grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and shaken.”
—John Crowe Ransom (18881974)
“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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