Royal Academy Summer

Famous quotes containing the words royal, academy and/or summer:

    “a highly respectable gondolier,
    Who promised the Royal babe to rear
    And teach him the trade of a timoneer
    With his own beloved brattling.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
    That we may look at them, in their gardens where
    The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
    Even the leaves fall down in lovelier patterns here.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)