Famous quotes containing the words long and/or blades:
“No one knows anybody’s name because nobody has a name. You’re just your state. I got to where somebody would say “Virginia,” and I’d answer. I was just “Virginia.” I wasn’t me any more.”
—Wendy Dascomb Long (b. c. 1950)
“By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:—”
—Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)