Famous quotes containing the words principal, bird and/or deity:
“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
—Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
I’d liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)