Coombe Hill Monument

Famous quotes containing the words hill and/or monument:

    “John Anderson my jo, John,
    We clamb the hill the gither;
    And mony a canty day, John,
    We’ve had wi’ ane anither:
    Now we maun totter down, John,
    And hand in hand we’ll go;
    And sleep the gither at the foot,
    John Anderson my Jo.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)