Territory Received Present

Famous quotes containing the words territory, received and/or present:

    “Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses—once!”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Open the envelope quickly,
    O this is not our son’s writing, yet his name is sign’d,
    O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother’s soul!
    All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main
    words only,
    Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
    At present low, but will soon be better.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)