Golden Shield

Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or shield:

    “I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
    But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)

    “The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)