Escaped Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words escaped and/or slaves:

“...I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:20.

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)