Famous quotes containing the words nurse, angel and/or characters:
“Then Englands ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
Where eer I wander, boast of this I can:
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Ive almost gained my heavnly home; My spirit loudly sings;
The holy ones behold they come, I hear the noise of wings.
O come, angel band, Come and around me stand.
O bear me away on your snowy wings, To my immortal home.”
—T. Haskell, minister and hymn-writer. Published in Christian Harmony. Angel Band, l. 5-8.
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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