Famous quotes containing the words island, command, greenland and/or winter:
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“The winter does what it can for its children.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)