Seat Declared Vacant

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

    “In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “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)

    “And ladies with their nails prepared for tea
    And sunken barques that coast the shores of hell
    And old men vacant of propriety
    Have faintly rung a next-door neighbor’s bell.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)