Shields Sun Devils

Famous quotes containing the words shields, sun and/or devils:

    “If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “God went out of me
    as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
    as if the sun became a latrine.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “But something may be done that we will not,
    And sometimes we are devils to ourselves,
    When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
    Presuming on their changeful potency.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)