Baron Foster of Thames Bank

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

    “Erle Douglas on his milk-white steede,
    Most like a baron bold,
    Rode foremost of his company,
    Whose armor shone like gold.”
    —Unknown. Chevy Chase (l. 65–68)

    “Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
    Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
    Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
    I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.””
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
    Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
    And mark in every face I meet
    Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
    —Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)