Famous quotes containing the word dragged:
“All night Ive held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye
and dragged me home alive. . . .”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Why the ghosts of poor old dead Romans should be dragged in every time a man eats an oyster, I dont see. Were as fine specimens as they were. I swear I shant let any old turned-to-clay Lucullus outlive me, even if Ive never eaten a lamprey.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)