Gold Star Membership

Famous quotes containing the words gold, star and/or membership:

    “In the gold mouth of a flower
    the black smell of spring earth.
    No more skulls on our desks
    but the pervasive
    testing of death....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
    And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fire,
    Show’d me the high, white star of Truth,
    There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
    Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
    What dost thou in this living tomb?”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
    —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)