Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

Famous quotes containing the words baron, port and/or ellen:

    “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)

    “It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.”
    —Anonymous, U.S. correspondence student. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt, quoting Ellen Swallow Richards (1912)