English Song Originally

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

    “Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    “I could take the Harlem night
    and wrap around you,
    Take the neon lights and make a crown,
    Take the Lenox Avenue buses,
    Taxis, subways,
    And for your love song tone their rumble down.”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)