Marching Band State

Famous quotes containing the words marching, band and/or state:

    “What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
    Where are the captains that govern mankind?
    What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
    A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
    March wind, and any old tune,
    March march and how does it run.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “And the heavy night hung dark
    The hills and waters o’er,
    When a band of exiles moored their bark
    On the wild New England shore.”
    —Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)

    “They will take a state and human nature for their tablet, and begin by making a clean surface.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)