Second Sea Lord/second Sea Lords 1904-1995

Famous quotes containing the words sea, lord and/or lords:

    “It is the time we have now, and all our wasted time sinks into the sea and is swallowed up without a trace. The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:14.

    “[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)