Ancient Sea Kings

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:

    “The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It was a soft medicine
    that came from the sea into my mouth,
    moist and plump.
    I swallowed.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:12.