Famous quotes containing the words northern, pacific and/or coal:
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“And in their blazing solitude
The stars sang in their sockets through the night:
Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)