Baron Foster of Thames Bank

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

    I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
    William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883–1962)

    Thatcher: You’re too old to call me “Mr. Thatcher,” Charles.
    Charles Foster Kane: You’re too old to be called anything else. You were always too old.
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    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)

    The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.
    Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)