Famous quotes containing the words national and/or light:
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (18741964)
“Irrational streams of blood are staining earth;
Empedocles has thrown all things about;
Hector is dead and theres a light in Troy;
We that look on but laugh in tragic joy.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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