Nation October

Famous quotes containing the words nation and/or october:

“I have been spending my first night in an American “summer hotel,” and I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining callow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)