Empty Quarter

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or quarter:

    “to-morrow it seem
    Like the empty words of a dream
    Remembered on waking.”
    —Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

    “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)