Famous quotes containing the words john and/or magee:
“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. Hell be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ...
And while with silent lifting mind Ive trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
—John Gillespie Magee (c. 19221941)