World Relative Passing

Famous quotes containing the words world, relative and/or passing:

    “It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “She went in there to muse on being rid
    Of relative beneath the coffin lid.
    No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “When as a child I laughed and wept,
    Time crept.
    When as a youth I waxed more bold,
    Time strolled.
    When I became a full-grown man,
    Time RAN.
    When older still I daily grew,
    Time FLEW.
    Soon I shall find, in passing on,
    Time gone.
    O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then?
    Amen.”
    —Henry Twells (1823–1900)