High Peaks

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or peaks:

    “Under an old oak, whose boughs were mossed with age
    And high top bald with dry antiquity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
    —David Lloyd George (1863–1945)