Grandfather Sir

Famous quotes containing the words grandfather and/or sir:

“The pitiless rugs had nothing to say,
the grandfather clock went on with its knitting,
the disposal vomited up chives and clover.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Over Sir John’s hill,
The hawk on fire hangs still;
In a hoisted cloud, at drop of dusk, he pulls to his claws
And gallows, up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bay....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)