Richard Montgomery High

Famous quotes containing the words richard, montgomery and/or high:

    “We are taking the Nautilus down for the last time.”
    —Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)

    “Hay! now the day dawis;
    The jolie Cok crawis;
    Now shroudis the shawis,
    Throw Natur anone.
    The thissell-cok cryis
    On lovers wha lyis.
    Now skaillis the skyis:
    The nicht is neir gone.”
    —Alexander Montgomery (1540?–1610?)

    “If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)