Famous quotes containing the words crossed and/or swords:
“my eyes filled up like an owl,
and my legs crossed themselves like Christ’s.
He was a stranger, Father.
Oh God,
he was a stranger,
was he not?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)