Torn Country

Famous quotes containing the words torn and/or country:

    my soul lingers over the skin of you
    and I wonder if I’m ruining all we had,
    and had not,
    by making this break,
    this torn wedding ring,
    this wrenched life....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)