White Pass and Yukon Route/1946%e2%80%931982

Famous quotes containing the words white, pass, yukon and/or route:

    That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan,
    or thought:
    no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept:
    terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities
    of escape open: no route shut,
    Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)