King David

Famous quotes containing the words king david, king and/or david:

“King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 1:1.

“What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
And all alone comes riding there
The King that could make his people stare,
Because he had feathers instead of hair.
A slow low note and an iron bell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“But, depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)