Famous quotes containing the words west, indian, cricket and/or season:
“The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I am not sure but all that would tempt me to teach the Indian my religion would be his promise to teach me his.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)