Famous quotes containing the words ford, taurus, sixth and/or generation:
“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”
—John Milius, U.S. screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)
“Upper and Lower Kingdom will declare
Gods in this wooden toy,
no less
than where
great Taurus ploughs his course.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)