Day Bank Holiday

Famous quotes containing the words day, bank and/or holiday:

    “A day for toil, an hour for sport,
    But for a friend is life too short.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It was like passing a boundary to dive
    Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed
    And limbed and lighted out from bank to bank.
    That’s how the stars shine during the day.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”
    —Billie Holiday (1915–1959)