Forty Days

Famous quotes containing the words forty days, forty and/or days:

“For forty days, for forty nights
Jesus put one foot in front of the other
and the man he carried,
if it was a man,
became heavier and heavier.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
—Mignon McLaughlin (b. c. 1915)