North Celestial Pole

Famous quotes containing the words north, celestial and/or pole:

“I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“poor black cherubs rise at seven
To do celestial chores.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)