Death Row Prisoners

Famous quotes containing the words death, row and/or prisoners:

    “Tear out the close vermiculate crease
    Where death crawled angrily at bay.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,”
    —John McCrae (1872–1918)

    “We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)