Hemisphere Snow Cover

Famous quotes containing the words hemisphere, snow and/or cover:

    “Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “There is a mountain in the distant West
    That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
    Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
    Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
    These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
    And seasons, changeless since the day she died.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Nothing can we call our own but death,
    And that small model of the barren earth
    Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)