Present Day North

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or north:

    “That the end is not far off since it will occur
    In the present and this is the present.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Every Morne from hence,
    A brisk Cherub something sips,
    Whose sacred influence
    Adds sweetnes to his sweetest lips,
    Then to his Musick, and his song
    Tastes of his breakefast all day long.”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

    “I felt that he, a prisoner in the midst of his enemies and under the sentence of death, if consulted as to his next step or resource, could answer more wisely than all his countrymen beside. He best understood his position; he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)