Famous quotes containing the words red and/or mountains:
“With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophatMa token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.”
—Ashurnasirpal II (r. 88359 B.C.)
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