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)

    “Thanks to the morning light,
    Thanks to the foaming sea,
    To the uplands of New Hampshire,
    To the green-haired forest free.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)