Swallow

Famous quotes containing the word swallow:

“New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

“It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

“So a swallow perpetuated
In dove-gray dusk can be both the end and the exaltation of a new
Beginning, yet forever remain itself....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)