Sound Navy Yard

Famous quotes containing the words sound, navy and/or yard:

    “my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
    No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.
    I want a peek at the back
    Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows.
    A girl gets sick of a rose.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)