Famous quotes containing the words king, big and/or band:
“Not Solomon, for all his wit,
Nor Samson, though he were so strong,
No king nor person ever yet
Could scape, but death laid him along:”
—Robert Southwell (1561?1595)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Firm, united, let us be,
Rallying round our Liberty;
As a band of brothers joined,
Peace and safety we shall find.”
—Joseph Hopkinson (17701842)
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