Mission San Carlos

Famous quotes containing the words mission, san and/or carlos:

    “When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)

    “the San Marco Library,
    Whence turbulent Italy should draw
    Delight in Art whose end is peace,
    In logic and in natural law
    By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “we, in
    that instant, lost,

    breathless to be witnesses,
    as if we stood
    ourselves refreshed among
    the shining fauna of that fire.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)