Famous quotes containing the words left, field and/or wall:
“I sometimes left a good fire when I went to take a walk in a winter afternoon; and when I returned, three or four hours afterward, it would be still alive and glowing. My house was not empty though I was gone. It was as if I had left a cheerful housekeeper behind. It was I and Fire that lived there; and commonly my housekeeper proved trustworthy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And through the field the road runs by
To many-towered Camelot;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Most of the time she had the personality of the back wall of a handball court.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)