Silver Laurel Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:

    Silver bells, silver bells,
    It’s Christmas time in the city.
    Ray Evans (b. 1915)

    Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor’s] laurel yield to the [orator’s] tongue.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)