Famous quotes containing the word heels:
“He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“in small war on the heels of small
war—until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)