Famous quotes containing the words twelve children, twelve and/or children:
“You always read about it:
the plumber with twelve children
who wins the Irish Sweepstakes.
From toilets to riches.
That story.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
Now they are all on their knees,”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“Gold light in blind love does not distinguish
one surface from another, the savor
is the same to its tongue, the fluted
cylinder of a new ashcan a dazzling silver,
the smooth flesh of screaming children a quietness, it is all
a jubilance....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)