Navy Blue Border

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

    “I call to mind the navy great
    That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
    And how the boistous winds did beat
    Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
    Till Agamemnon’s daughter’s blood
    Appeased the gods that them withstood.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    “My Father, it is surely a blue place
    And straight. Right. Regular.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “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)