House of Alpin/descent of The Alp%C3%ADnid Kings

Famous quotes containing the words house, descent and/or kings:

    “A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendour.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    ““There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
    That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
    A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
    So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
    Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “One who puts on armor should not brag like one who takes it off.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 20:11.