Yearning

Famous quotes containing the word yearning:

“We in the South were ready for reconciliation, to be accepted as equals, to rejoin the mainstream of American political life. This yearning for what might be called political redemption was a significant factor in my successful campaign.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

“The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“I was used to yearning for you. After you returned my love, I felt unsettled and vaguely aggrieved.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)