Spanish Descent

Famous quotes containing the words spanish and/or descent:

“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)