Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or stern:
“The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.”
—Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield, Or Baron Pass (1859–1947)
“The rich earth, of its own self made rich,
Fertile of its own leaves and days and wars,
Of its brown wheat rapturous in the wind,
The nature of its women in the air,
The stern voices of its necessitous men,
This chorus as of those that wanted to live.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)