Famous quotes containing the words gulf, breeze and/or high:
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortunes breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“How high they build hospitals!
Lighted cliffs, against dawns
Of days people will die on.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
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