Yankee/contemporary Uses

Famous quotes containing the words yankee and/or contemporary:

    “Yankee Doodle came to London, just to ride the ponies,
    I am a Yankee Doodle boy.”
    —George M. Cohan (1878–1942)

    “Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)