American Love Songs

Famous quotes containing the words american, love and/or songs:

    “It is always dangerous to generalise, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.”
    —Margot Asquith (1864–1945)

    “Falstaff. I am old, I am old.
    Doll Tearsheet. I love thee better than I love e’er a scurvy
    young boy of them all.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me;
    Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree:
    Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet;
    And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)