Laid

Famous quotes containing the word laid:

    I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
    Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    The germ of violence is laid bare in the child abuser by the sheer accident of his individual experience ... in a word, to a greater degree than we like to admit, we are all potential child abusers.
    F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Mexican professor of pathology, author. “Reflections on Child Abuse,” Notes of an Anatomist (1985)

    And when thy heart is laid to rest
    Beneath the church-yard stone
    I shall have time enough to mourn
    And thou to be alone.”
    Emily Brontë (1818–1848)