Twelve Thousand

Famous quotes containing the words twelve thousand, twelve and/or thousand:

    “In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “You always read about it:
    the plumber with twelve children
    who wins the Irish Sweepstakes.
    From toilets to riches.
    That story.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I will use the world and sift it,
    To a thousand humors shift it,
    As you spin a cherry.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)