White Cliffs Country

Famous quotes containing the words white, cliffs and/or country:

    “My age fallen away like white swaddling
    Floats in the middle distance, becomes
    An inhabited cloud.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
    With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
    And he said to her, “Try to be true to me,
    And I’ll do the same for you, for things are bad
    All over, etc., etc.””
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    “Elections and politics in this country correspond with battles and war in other times and countries. Whatever of departing evils remains is sure to show itself last in the excitement of political contests.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)