Famous quotes containing the words grand, island and/or bridge:
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (15611626)
“I see four nuns
who sit like a bridge club,
their faces poked out
from under their habits,”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)