Linger

Famous quotes containing the word linger:

“We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they are half forgotten ere we have learned the language.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive’s hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.”
—Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)