Knives

Famous quotes containing the word knives:

    We do not wish to injure you.... But if you again plunge your knives into the breasts of our people, I shall send a force which will severely punish you for your cruelties.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    I am the love killer,
    I am murdering the music we thought so special,
    that blazed between us, over and over.
    I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss.
    I am pushing knives through the hands
    that created two into one.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)