Appointed Successor Held

Famous quotes containing the words appointed, successor and/or held:

    “Mud unto mud!—Death eddies near—
    Not here the appointed End, not here!
    But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
    Is wetter water, slimier slime!”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “All night I’ve held your hand,
    as if you had
    a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
    its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
    and dragged me home alive. . . .”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)