Sir John Franklin

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

    “Sir John, Sir, is a very unclubbable man.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Over Sir John’s hill,
    The hawk on fire hangs still;
    In a hoisted cloud, at drop of dusk, he pulls to his claws
    And gallows, up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bay....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)