Famous quotes containing the words blue, angels and/or announced:
“It was beginning winter,
An in-between time,
The landscape still partly brown:
The bones of weeds kept swinging in the wind,
Above the blue snow.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)