Palace Museum Holds

Famous quotes containing the words palace, museum and/or holds:

“In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“No one to slap his head.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 190, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

“An uncertain green,
Piano-polished, held the tranced machine

Of ocean, as a prelude holds and holds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)