Famous quotes containing the words robert frost, county, school, robert, frost and/or middle:
“I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction
A God can find in laughing at how badly
Men fumble at the possibilities....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”
—Richard Sherman, songwriter, Robert Sherman, songwriter, and Clarence Brown. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! (Song)
“Inside the brain
Two memories that long had lain
Now quivered toward each other, lipped
Together, and together slipped;
And for a moment all was plain
That men have thought about in vain.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future. Persons might then straddle the middle stretch of the seesaw when considering this or that object. It might be fun.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)