Famous quotes containing the words shining night, shining and/or night:
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“We imagined that the sun shining on their bare heads had stamped a liberal and public character on their most private thoughts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All night long the darling daughter squirms
Wild where the Toddle and the Shimmy vie
In making passion virtuous and correct....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)