Sexton Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A little thought is sexton to all the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me…
— Lena Dunham
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
— Joni Mitchell
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I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I…
— Emily Bronte
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Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.
— Neil Gaiman
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Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet…
— Meg Cabot
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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps --…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists withdelight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Sexton Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Sexton Quotes as follows: