Desired

Famous quotes containing the word desired:

“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

“I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to his will.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)