Seat Declared Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words seat, declared and/or vacant:

    “Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion: nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century and dwarfs an age to an hour.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
    The worlds revolve like ancient women
    Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)