Peach Blossom Island

Famous quotes containing the words peach, blossom and/or island:

    “Nature, doubtless, has some compelling cause
    To glut the carriers of her epidemics—
    Nor did the peach complain.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    “Earth that bore with joyful ease
    Hemlock for Socrates,
    Earth that blossomed and was glad
    ‘Neath the cross that Christ had,
    Shall rejoice and blossom too
    When the bullet reaches you.”
    —Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)

    “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)