Famous quotes containing the words van, den and/or hove:
“If ... boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
—Vincent Van Gogh (18531890)
“The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
“But she rode it out,
That old rose-house,
She hove into the teeth of it,”
—Theodore Roethke (19081963)