General Grand Chapter

Famous quotes containing the words general, grand and/or chapter:

    “Through the particular, in wartime, I felt the high-voltage current of the general pass.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)