Famous quotes containing the words field, service and/or council:
“The field of doom bears death as its harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community,these are the most vital things education must try to produce.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (18771965)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of Englands Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstaind with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Killd with report that old man eloquent;”
—John Milton (16081674)
Related Phrases
Related Words