Wrecked

Famous quotes containing the word wrecked:

“Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)

“The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, “built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts.” To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ship’s company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)