Gentle Nettie Moore

Famous quotes containing the words gentle and/or moore:

    Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
    He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
    And away they all flew like the down of a thistle,
    But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
    “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”
    —Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)