Famous quotes containing the words dead, ball and/or foul:
“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother’s face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
—Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)
“List, list, O list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love—
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Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
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Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)