Starting Birth Year

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

    “what most appals
    Is that tiny first shiver,
    That stumble, whereby
    We know beyond doubt
    They have almost run out
    And are starting to die.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “And year by year our memory fades
    From all the circle of the hills.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)