Famous quotes containing the word asks:
“Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday youll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every mans face turned toward ya. Lieutenants jump when I growl. Now tomorrow, Ill be glad if the blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
“For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station . . . if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their woman.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“... asks what its too late to ask:
Where is my life? Where is my life?
What have I done with my life?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)