Tropical Years

Famous quotes containing the words tropical and/or years:

    “Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
    That frequently happens in tropical climes
    When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Spring still makes spring in the mind,
    When sixty years are told;
    Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
    And we are never old.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)