South African Accents

Famous quotes containing the words south, african and/or accents:

    “Returned this day, the south wind searches,
    And finds young pines and budding birches;
    But finds not the budding man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I’ve never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.”
    —Victoria Gray, African American civil rights activist. As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 3, by Hay Mills (1993)

    “Let others sing of knights and paladins
    In aged accents and untimely words,
    Paint shadows, in imaginary lines,”
    —Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)