Majestic America Line

Famous quotes containing the words majestic, america and/or line:

    It doth amaze me
    A man of such a feeble temper should
    So get the start of the majestic world
    And bear the palm alone.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The pure products of America go crazy—mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.
    John Gregory Brown (20th century)