Herbert Joseph Thompson

Famous quotes containing the words herbert, joseph and/or thompson:

    “I, who had heard of music in the spheres,
    But not of speech in stars, began to muse:
    But turning to my God, whose ministers
    The stars and all things are; If I refuse,
    Dread Lord, said I, so oft my good;
    Then I refuse not ev’n with blood
    To wash away my stubborn thought:
    For I will do or suffer what I ought.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of McDonalds, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.”
    —Alice Thompson (b. 1963)