Famous quotes containing the words kentish town, kentish, town and/or west:
“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“I didn’t have any looks, I didn’t have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, “I don’t have anything.” If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].”
—Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)