Sir John Franklin

Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir and/or franklin:

    “Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.”
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    “Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
    The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “That which resembles most living one’s life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)