USS Comfort Ah-3/ward Line 1907-1917

Famous quotes containing the words comfort, ward and/or line:

    Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
    —Bible: Hebrew Song of Solomon, 2:5.

    Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
    Humphrey, Mrs. Ward (1851–1920)

    There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.
    John Gregory Brown (20th century)