Sir John Scott

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

    “Thus while I sit and sigh the day
    With all his borrow’d lights away,
    Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
    Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
    As sudden lights do sleepy men,
    So they by their bright rays awake me.”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
    And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
    —Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)

    “Earth and I gave you turquoise
    when you walked singing
    We lived laughing in my house
    and told old stories”
    —N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)