Southern Air

Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or air:

“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)