Cape Breton East

Famous quotes containing the words cape, breton and/or east:

    The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur of Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?
    Never heart could ever miss
    Comfort, where true meaning is.
    —Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

    An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)