China Morning Post

Famous quotes containing the words china, morning and/or post:

    “The roof of England fell
    Great Paris tolled her bell
    And China staunched her milk and wept for bread”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.””
    —William Harmon (b. 1938)