Ten Year War

Famous quotes containing the words ten year, ten, year and/or war:

    “I feared
    The belly-cold, the grave-clout, that betrayed
    Me dithering in the drift of cordial seas;
    Ten years are time enough to be dismayed
    By mummy Christ, head crammed between his knees.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Some of these people need ten years of therapy—ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.”
    —Jeff Zaslow (b. 1925)

    “You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
    —Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    “The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
    The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
    The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
    I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
    Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
    Its echo in my heart.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)