Starting Birth Year

Famous quotes containing the words starting, birth and/or year:

    “And down in fathoms many went the captain and the crew;
    Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain
    allured:
    Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth
    Station where time reverses his light heels
    To run both ways, and makes of forward back;
    Whose long co-ordinates are birth and death....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious “retreat” of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)