Famous quotes containing the words bank and/or system:
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)