Distant Time

Famous quotes containing the words distant and/or time:

    When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Come, come” said Tom’s father, “at your time of life,
    There’s no longer excuse for thus playing the rake—
    It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.”
    “Why, so it is, father—whose wife shall I take?”
    Thomas Moore (1779–1852)