Famous quotes containing the words crosses, grand and/or river:
“When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)
“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Goneglimmering through the dream of things that were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
There I was told: we have too many churches,
And too few chop-houses.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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