Famous quotes containing the words richard f, richard and/or gordon:
“It’s almost as if they were saying, “You live your life, and we’ll live ours.””
—Richard Fielding, and Lee Sholem. Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates)
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)
“But carpe diem, Juan, carpe, carpe!
To-morrow sees another race as gay
And transient, and devour’d by the same harpy.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)