Reached Yankee Station

Famous quotes containing the words reached, yankee and/or station:

    “It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.”
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

    “Yankee Doodle came to London, just to ride the ponies,
    I am a Yankee Doodle boy.”
    —George M. Cohan (1878–1942)

    “Say first, of God above, or Man below,
    What can we reason, but from what we know?
    Of Man what see we, but his station here,
    From which to reason, or to which refer?
    Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
    ‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
    ”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)