Blows

Famous quotes containing the word blows:

    Who blows death’s feather? What glory is colour?
    I blow the stammel feather in the vein.
    The loin is glory in a working pallor.
    My clay unsuckled and my salt unborn,
    The secret child, I shift about the sea
    Dry in the half-tracked thigh.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    A thousand moral paintings I can show
    That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune’s
    More pregnantly than words.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    [Gen. William S.] “Rosecrans [at Chicamauga] has been badly beaten!”... How these blows strike my heart!... I suffer from these blows more than I did from the loss of my sweet little boy. But I suffer less now than I did from Bull Run, or even Fredericksburg.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)