Famous quotes containing the words boys, cross and/or country:
““Good boys they seemed, and let them love the city.
All they could say was ‘God!’ when you proposed
Their coming out and making useful farmers.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First—”
—Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)