Resigned August

Famous quotes containing the words resigned and/or august:

“We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)

“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)