Famous quotes containing the words raven and/or shield:
“O, it comes o’er my memory
As doth the raven o’er the infected house,
Boding to all!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)