Present Day North

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

    “At present our only true names are nicknames.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Simonides. And she is fair too, is she not?
    Pericles. As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
    And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
    And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
    And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
    And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)