Shut

Famous quotes containing the word shut:

“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid
sorrow from mine eyes.
Why died I not from the womb?”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 10–11)

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)