Famous quotes containing the words ransom and/or note:
“And the chieftains head, with grinning sockets, and varnished
Is it hung on the sky with a hideous epitaphy?
No, the woman keeps the trophy.”
—John Crowe Ransom (18881974)
“His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life.”
—Aneurin Bevan (18971960)