Ten Thousands

Famous quotes containing the words ten and/or thousands:

    Those times I mussed his curly black hair
    and touched his ten tar-fingers
    and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
    Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
    Father,
    we are two birds on fire.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    This was the Eastham famous of late years for its camp- meetings, held in a grove near by, to which thousands flock from all parts of the Bay. We conjectured that the reason for the perhaps unusual, if not unhealthful development of the religious sentiment here, was the fact that a large portion of the population are women whose husbands and sons are either abroad on the sea, or else drowned, and there is nobody but they and the ministers left behind.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)