Famous quotes containing the word cry:
“Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run,
As it were doomsday.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane’s rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
And hear a cry from a reeling deck!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)