English Song Originally

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

    The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
    Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)

    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)

    The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)