Angelid Dynasty/twenty Years Anarchy 695-717

Famous quotes containing the words twenty, years and/or anarchy:

    Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man—and after that, praying.
    Irish proverb.

    So much for Mrs. Hollis’ nine months of pain and 20 years of hope.
    Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Nameless GI, Objective Burma, cutting dog tags off a dead GI (1945)

    It’s the anarchy of poverty
    delights me, the old
    yellow wooden house indented
    among the new brick tenements
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)