Famous quotes containing the words poe, singer and/or present:
“In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace
Radiant palacereared its head.
In the monarch Thoughts dominion,
It stood there!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell a song. His G clef was a dollar sign.”
—Albert Goldman (b. 1927)
“When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it wont be just our childs feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as wellfrom our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)