Wearing American Uniforms

Famous quotes containing the words wearing, american and/or uniforms:

    I felt more determined than ever to become a physician, and thus place a strong barrier between me and all ordinary marriage. I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
    Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910)

    Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
    Ready to pass to the American strand.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    I place these numbed wrists to the pane
    watching white uniforms whisk over
    him in the tube-kept
    prison
    fear what they will do in experiment
    Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)