Short

Famous quotes containing the word short:

“[On being asked “what sort of future she anticipates having”:] A very short one.”
—Jeanne Calment (b. c. 1875)

“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

“Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”
—Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)