Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or leaves:
“England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And I her son, though summer-born
And summer-loving, none the less
Am easier when the leaves are gone....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)