Common Year Starting

Famous quotes containing the words common, year and/or starting:

    “If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring happy bells, across the snow:
    The year is going, let him go;
    Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “He will be starting pretty late.
    He’ll find that Asiatic state
    Is about tired of being looted
    While having its beliefs disputed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)