Constable John Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words constable, john and/or stevens:

    “The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “Be thou that wintry sound
    As of the great wind howling,
    By which sorrow is released,
    Dismissed, absolved
    In a starry placating.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)