Famous quotes containing the words david, politician, member, parliament, york and/or south:
“They did not hang him at once, but reserved him to preach to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“Behind the concept of woman’s strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“He felt that it would be dull times in Dublin, when they should have no usurping government to abuse, no Saxon Parliament to upbraid, no English laws to ridicule, and no Established Church to curse.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The South Wind is a baker.”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)