Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“What have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“It mattering not how beautiful you were,
Or how beloved above all else that dies.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)