Rapid Ride Red

Famous quotes containing the words rapid, ride and/or red:

    ““Five o’clock tea” is a phrase our “rude forefathers,” even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for “all the ills that flesh is heir to,” the glorious Magna Charta.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Now let us sing, Long live the king,
    And Gilpin long live he;
    And when he next doth ride abroad,
    May I be there to see!”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 1:18.