Twelve Thousand

Famous quotes containing the words twelve thousand, twelve and/or thousand:

    “Yet I well remember
    The favors of these men. Were they not mine?
    Did they not sometimes cry “All hail!” to me?
    So Judas did to Christ; but He, in twelve,
    Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Ten for the Ten Commandments

    Eleven for the ‘leven that went to heaven

    Twelve for the twelve Apostles”
    —Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 30–32)

    “Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of “other women who do it” and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.”
    —Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)