Wars Holiday Special

Famous quotes containing the words wars, holiday and/or special:

    “You fade—as if the last of days
    Were fading and all wars were done.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”
    —Derek Walcott (b. 1930)