Famous quotes containing the words day and/or nurse:
“Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
And know the explanation I must pass is this
MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
“Then England’s ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
Where e’er I wander, boast of this I can:
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)