Famous quotes containing the words holy, land and/or foundation:
“Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
This Land of Saints, and then as the applause died out,
Of plaster Saints; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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