Die Des Champs

Famous quotes containing the words die, des and/or champs:

    ““Not to die on the straw at home,
    Those hands to close these eyes,
    That is all I ask, my dear,
    From the old man in the skies.”
    Day-break and a candle end.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “One difference between Nazi and Soviet camps was that in the latter dying was a slower process.”
    —Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)