Famous quotes containing the words aft, flight and/or deck:
“O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,
I aft hae kissed sae fondly;
And closed for ay, the sparkling glance
That dwalt on me sae kindly;
And moldering now in silent dust
That heart that loed me dearly!”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
—Georges Bernanos (18881948)
“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptunes diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (15671620)