North Celestial Pole

Famous quotes containing the words north, celestial and/or pole:

    “Let north and south—let all Americans—let all lovers of liberty everywhere—join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing,
    Beloved from pole to pole!
    To Mary Queen the praise be given!
    She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
    That slid into my soul.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)