Pole Vault Stars

Famous quotes containing the words pole, vault and/or stars:

    “I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
    —Muriel Spark (b. 1918)

    “I dreamed, last night, that I could vault over any height it pleased me. That was something; and I contemplated myself with a slight satisfaction in the morning for it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “His homely Northern breast and brain
    Grow to some Southern tree,
    And strange-eyed constellations reign
    His stars eternally.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)