United Nations General

Famous quotes containing the words united, nations and/or general:

    “In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
    The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
    Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
    Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
    Great nations blossom above,
    A slave bows down to a slave.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect,
    Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
    As broad and general as the casing air.
    But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
    To saucy doubts and fears.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)