Famous quotes containing the words faced, storm and/or petrel:
“Pompeius, best of all my comrades, you and I
Often faced death when we were rebels.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)
“Many Americans imagine simpler times even as a storm of social change swirls about, blowing parents here and children there. Sure, the 1950s ideal world would be wonderful. But knock on the nation’s doors: Ozzie and Harriet are seldom at home.”
—Leslie Dreyfous (20th century)
“Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)