Lord Rootes

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or rootes:

    I have been thinking this half hour how to begin my letter and cannot for my soul make it out. I wish to the Lord one could write a letter without any beginning for I am sure it allways puzzles me more than all the rest of it.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.
    —Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)