Sir Joseph Banks

Famous quotes containing the words sir, joseph and/or banks:

    “O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.”
    —Jacob, Sir Astley (1579–1652)

    “Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “For the wrong that needs resistance,
    For the future in the distance,
    And the good that I can do.”
    —George Linnaeus Banks (1821–1881)