Bronze Service Stars

Famous quotes containing the words bronze, service and/or stars:

    “Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
    —Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)