Navy Blue Border

Famous quotes containing the words navy, blue and/or border:

    “There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “Dear Friend,
    the canebrakes
    nestled in the riverbank’s lap,
    their clusters broken
    from the weight of blue bees,
    have in time
    become stumps.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “I learn to affirm
    Truth’s light at strange turns of the mind’s road,
    wrong turns that lead
    over the border into wonder....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)