King David

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or david:

    “The honest man, though e’er sae poor,
    Is king o’ men, for a’ that!”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is. When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)