Heard Island

Famous quotes containing the words heard and/or island:

“This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”
—Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)

““Our island home
Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.””
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)