Southbound Charing Cross

Famous quotes containing the words charing cross, charing and/or cross:

“I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered—which was done there—he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
—Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

“Cry;—and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)