Present Day North

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or north:

    For Africa to me ... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
    Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I meet him at every turn. He is more alive than ever he was. He has earned immortality. He is not confined to North Elba nor to Kansas. He is no longer working in secret. He works in public, and in the clearest light that shines on this land.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)