Governor General's Foot Guards - Order of Precedence

Famous quotes containing the words order of, order and/or precedence:

“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

““I have said no
To everything, in order to get at myself.
I have wiped away moonlight like mud....””
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“It is difficult to separate the tapestry
From the room or loom which takes precedence over it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)