Thompson

Famous quotes containing the word thompson:

    Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns!
    Love rules, Her gentler purpose runs.
    A mighty mother turns in tears
    The pages of her battle years,
    Lamenting all her fallen sons!
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

    They smote and fell, who set the bars
    Against the progress of the stars,
    And stayed the march of Motherland!
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

    Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of “the rat race” is not yet final.
    —Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)