Famous quotes containing the words grand, national and/or alliance:
“Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I came here for one thing only, to try to help national Irelandand if there is no such thing in existence then the sooner I pay for my illusions the better.”
—Roger Casement (18641916)
“But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)