Died Childless

Famous quotes containing the words died and/or childless:

    “Honour came to me,
    though I sought it not;
    I died at mid-day, sleeping;
    They did not see the reach of purple-wing
    that lifted me out of the little room.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)