Brother David

Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or david:

    —My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman. “Then he will never,” quoth my father, “be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.”
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)