Famous quotes containing the words free, draining and/or slightly:
“If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes.... But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is.”
—Bible: New Testament (RSV)
“The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing;
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
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