Famous quotes containing the words guardian, sailor and/or moon:
“Its not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. Its the one that says To whom it may concern.”
—Anonymous Belfast Resident. quoted in Guardian (London, Oct. 16, 1991)
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long headno intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Her image was my ensign: snows melted,
Hedges sprouted, the moon tenderly shone,
The owls trilled with tongues of nightingale.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
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