Famous quotes containing the words white, cliffs and/or country:
“It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because were all so bummed out.”
—Elizabeth Wurtzel, U.S. author. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, p. 298, Houghton Mifflin (1994)
“So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, Try to be true to me,
And Ill do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
—Marquis De Custine (17901857)