Wished

Famous quotes containing the word wished:

“Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“I almost wished that I was still in prison. I felt I wasn’t ready to be out making
decisions.... Even now over three years after my release, I can carry around fifty rand for
two weeks and not spend it. I go into shops, but I find it hard to choose things.”
—Feziwe Bookholane (b. 1942)

“I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)