Famous quotes containing the words sir, samuel and/or walker:
“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Let no one’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:32.
David, of Goliath.
“croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
where sentiment and hatred still held sway
and only bitter land was washed away.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)