Departing

Famous quotes containing the word departing:

“The departing year:
from my parents I have kept
my grey hair hidden.”
—Etsujin (1656?–1739)

“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remembered tolling a departing friend.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)