Baron Foster of Thames Bank

Famous quotes containing the words baron, foster, thames and/or bank:

    The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.
    Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield, Or Baron Pass (1859–1947)

    All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    Home! Yes! she would see Trafalgar Square, again; and Nelson on his plinth; and Chelsea Bridge as it dissolved into the Thames at twilight ... and St. Paul’s, the single Amazon breast of her beloved native city.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)