Day Coloured Coin

Famous quotes containing the words day, coloured and/or coin:

    “These, in the day when heaven was falling,
    The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
    Followed their mercenary calling
    And took their wages and are dead.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “All the heavy days are over;
    Leave the body’s coloured pride
    Underneath the grass and clover,
    With the feet laid side by side.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)