they also serve who only stand and wait

They also serve who only stand and wait for the two fifteen.

As the poet Milton said "they also serve who only stand and wait".

Or an aside to a sibling whining in line at the bank: "They also serve who only stand and wait."

One of our poets better described my present role, I fear: "They also serve who only stand and wait.' "

The last three lines (concluding with "They also serve who only stand and wait.")

"They also serve who only stand and wait" may have been John Milton's credo.

I am determined to watch a pot till it boils, remembering, "They also serve who only stand and wait."

They also serve who only stand and wait'; an ancient poet, John Milton, wrote that.

IT'S a treasured truism: they also serve who only stand and wait.

He deemed one of blind Milton's to be impeccable: They also serve who only stand and wait.

"They also serve who only stand and wait," wrote John Milton in the seventeenth century, but that was of a very different kind of war.

"They also serve who only stand and wait...." Not since he was very young had he been so deeply moved.

I hoped I'd chosen an appropriate quotation: 'They also serve who only stand and wait.'

In this performance, Milton's often-quoted line takes on newly abject echoes: "They also serve who only stand and wait."

He turned to Sally, and to comfort her for the anti-climax of the contrast added grandiloquently: "They also serve who only stand and wait."

Mrs Crumwallis poised herself over her urns in her favourite position, while Hilary Frome acted on Milton's assurance that they also served who only stood and waited.

He also lauded the families of service members, urging the audience to remember the words of the romantic poet John Keats, who said, "They also serve who only stand and wait."

If "they also serve who only stand and wait" becomes the axiom of the 1992 Presidential campaign, no Democrat can stand to wait longer than Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.

The poet John Milton, in his sonnet "When I consider how my light is spent", mourns his sight loss and ends with the famous line: "They also serve who only stand and wait."

Goode and Hunter were not asked for theirs, but they were accustomed to this; Goode was fond of quoting, a little ironically, Milton's line "They also serve who only stand and wait."

He recalled that a famous Wordsworth poem refers to the English poet John Milton, whose sonnet On His Blindness concludes with the famous line, "They also serve who only stand and wait."

They also serve who only stand and wait and hand out water, so to speak, spurring on the 28,000 runners whose mass surge from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at 10:50 A.M. starts the city's race of the year.

Carter was at first puzzled by her choice, but then came to believe that the last line had special meaning for all wives and family members of submariners who were away at sea: "They also serve who only stand and wait."

As she did in that high school costume room so long ago, Eleanor Coppola quietly stands at the ready, watching for opportunities both to help and to make art, giving an entirely different meaning to that old poetic line: "They also serve who only stand and wait."