Late Life and Honors
The town of Holden, Alberta, founded in 1905, is named in his honor.
Read more about this topic: James Bismark Holden
Famous quotes containing the words late, life and/or honors:
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“Poor vaunt of life indeed,
Were man but formed to feed
On joy, to solely seek and find and feast:”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)