En Grey Announced

Famous quotes containing the words grey and/or announced:

    “Fretted shadow on stumps
    A vanishing husk
    Of light . . . grey lumps
    Of stone verge the hills with fears.
    It is quickly dusk.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)