Famous quotes containing the words parish, lawn, crest, stained and/or glass:
“My stardust melody, the memory of love’s refrain.”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)
“Once our idea of heaven meant
all the dead relatives waiting
on the kept lawn of the many mansions
as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing
to do. ...”
—Deborah Digges (b. 1950)
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The stained unsightly breath
Of carious death.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)