Broad Subject Fields

Famous quotes containing the words broad, subject and/or fields:

    “the broad cloud-driving moon in the clear sky
    Lifts o’er the firs her shining shield,
    And in her tranquil light
    Sleep falls on forest and field.
    See! sleep hath fallen: the trees are asleep:
    The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep.”
    —Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

    “A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “Mantled in grey, the dusk steals slowly in,
    Crossing the dead, dull fields with footsteps cold.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)