John Thompson Parker

Famous quotes containing the words john, thompson and/or parker:

    “Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman ... never gave offence to anyone, not even the enemy.”
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)