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.

    “How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)