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)

    “It had been cold since December. Snow fell, first,
    At New Year and, from then until April, lay
    On everything. Now it had melted, leaving
    The gray grass like a pallet, closely pressed;
    And dirt. The wind blew in the empty place.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “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)