Edgar Whitcomb/early Life

Famous quotes containing the words edgar, whitcomb, early and/or life:

    “We are the music-makers,
    And we are the dreamers of dreams,
    Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
    And sitting by desolate streams;
    World-losers and world-forsakers,
    On whom the pale moon gleams:”
    —Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)

    “a feller is a-feelin’ at his best,
    With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
    As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock,
    When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock.”
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    “Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “They think how one life hums, revolves and toils,
    One cog in a golden singing hive:”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)