Famous quotes containing the words close and/or relationship:
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was trembling, because Id got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: All right, then, Ill go to helland tore it up.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)