English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

    Civilisation—a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
    Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
    If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 4–5)

    Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)