Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

    “The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
    Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
    Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
    These five kings did a king to death.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “...his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 17:17.

    “Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chiefly regarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)