Desired

Famous quotes containing the word desired:

“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?”
—Li Po (701–762)

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:37.

“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)