Rabindranath Tagore/twilight Years - 1932%e2%80%931941

Famous quotes containing the words tagore, twilight and/or years:

    “I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child.”
    —Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)

    “But we still remember ... above all, the cool, free aspect of the wild apple trees, generously proffering their fruit to us, though still green and crude,—the hard, round, glossy fruit, which, if not ripe, still was not poison, but New English too, brought hither, its ancestors, by ours once. These gentler trees imparted a half-civilized and twilight aspect to the otherwise barbarian land.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)