General Sir Richard

Famous quotes containing the words general, sir and/or richard:

    “Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    “When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “So on we worked, and waited for the light,
    And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
    And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
    Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)