Famous quotes containing the words blue, cheer and/or band:
“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin,his control
Stops with the shore;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yet accredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)