Top Quarter

Famous quotes containing the words top and/or quarter:

    “Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “I have started to say
    “A quarter of a century”
    Or “thirty years back”
    About my own life.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)