Broken Covenant

Famous quotes containing the words broken and/or covenant:

    You have broken off a weighted leaf
    in the wind,
    it is hurled out,
    whirls up and sinks,
    a green stone.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)