Black Sea Canal

Famous quotes containing the words black, sea and/or canal:

    “Light thickens, and the crow
    Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.
    Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
    Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I, a spinning man,
    Glory also this star, bird
    Roared, sea born, man torn, blood blest.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)